The Group Policy Client Service Failed the Logon

[leachim]

Access is denied

 

Can anyone help with this

 

I have been into the reg to see if the is a .bak to one of the profiles in Profilelist, but there isn't

 

I have made a new user to access the machine, and Also Safe Mode can access the faulty account, but not in normal mode

 

Thanks

[Arthur]

Installing the hotfix from KB3014783 might be worth a try. Edited June 20, 2015 by Arthur

[DCUK6]

Not sure if it applies to Win 7 but our Server 2008 R2 machine had this when the registry hive was huge. So big that the RAM was eaten up and it failed the login.

 

Have you got any large files in

C:\Windows\System32\config

?

[leachim]

Well what I did was create another user and copied all the data from the old to new minus the ntuser files

 

BUT I did note the profile size for that user was 630 GBs !!!

 

So maybe you were right - how could you fix that ?

[GRitchie]

Yeah, we've had this - tried most fixes, all unsuccessful.

In the past, creating a new profile fixed it.

If not, I've had to delete and re-create the user account (then point them to their old home folder)

[JATSO]

Get this a few times a week in all my 4 schools.

 

Just delete the profile check the registry for .bak files and make sure the user can log without getting a temp profile.

 

This always sorts it for me but would like a permanent fix.

Microsoft probably just ignored it as a permanent glitch in Windows 7 and certainly wouldn't fix it now.

[Oaktech]

I've fixed this in a variety of ways...

 

Preventative maintenance - running profile cleanup as a scheduled task

reactive maintenance - installing that hotfix and running profile cleanup manually and scanning reg as mentioned above

 

flattening the machine and starting again is often quicker and easier!