I'm having a strange problem on two of my home 64-bit Windows 7 machines. About 75% of the time when I boot from a cold start, my profile fails to load. The event viewer gives me this error:
Windows was unable to load the
registry. This problem is often caused
by insufficient memory or insufficient
security rights.DETAIL – The process cannot access
the file because it is being used by
another process. for
C:\Users\Roger\ntuser.dat
If I log off and back on, the profile always loads correctly.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm not sure what other than Windows could grab my profile upon boot. I've checked permissions of the ntuser.dat file and system has full control.
Best Answer
Have you tried creating a new account and check if the problem occurs there as well?
I've seen a post on TechNet where they suggest it as a possible solution.
An accepted solution there was Startup Repair:
Another suggestion they made there makes you lave the trouble making files behind (note this was under XP I think):