is my computer done?

jsh169

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I have a windows 7 32bit. I don't. Have the original system. Anyways about two days ago I got a temporary system profile, everytime i logged in. I may of did something there, anyways i finally got it back. I tried two system restores. I went to change the font because it.was smaller than usual and said it required a log off.

I log off than try to log back on and got this error issue
The group policy client service failed to logon.
I only have one username since im the only one who uses the computer. I have tried the repair disc and dont have system restore even as an option, did the disc repair and that didn't seem to do anything. I can run a command prompt with the repair disc, but it is all i can seem to do. I did purchase a new windows 7 key, but was planning on using it for the new computer that im building. Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

a_en

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1. just a quick google
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/db6b1e96-6940-42c1-bdc5-3de990fc38bc/the-group-policy-client-service-failed-the-logon

Case select you will be logged on with a temporary user profile:

Login with Administrator account on the local machine.
Open Regedit.
Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
There should be a multitude of Registry keys inside the ProfileList and search for two identical ones which are differentiated by the .bak extension (e.g. xxxxxx1234.bak & xxxxxx1234).
The Registry key with the .bak extension contains the user's actual profile while the one without the .bak contains the Temp profile.
Delete the Registry Key WITHOUT the .bak extension and rename the one with it to xxxxx1234 (without the .bak). Notice the fields on the right, there should be a value named RefCount, change the value to 0.

2. Can you access " C:\USERS\your profile name"??
If not, then it is corrupted, try MANUAL copy paste on any intact folders before chkdsk.
Chkdsk is known to make your folder into a single 1 kb file and recovery process more complex.

3. User profiles just a folders, make a new profile and copy your old/backed up "appdata" into new profiles.



 

a_en

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Try log in into Advanced Boot Options ( F8 when booting ) then safe mode, if succeed then proceed at previous step.

If login still fail go into into startup repair options, use the windows 7 install disk to boot if preinstalled startup repair is broken.
Check if system restore works there.
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Forgot to add. Windows 7 allow you to reuse the key to reinstall to same machine, if this step is daunting for you, you can just reinstall your OS if you dont have any complex software that need to reactivate. Make sure to not format the disk! just install the windows on the old system disk, your users, windows and program files folder will be moved to windows.old. Salvage anything you can after you reinstall your OS.
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If system restore not working, open command prompt and proceed here. Make sure to create copy your old registry hives.

https://mattterrabyte.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/modify-windows-registry-startup-repair/

At the command prompt, type: regedit.

The Registry Editor will appear. Now you just edit the registry like any other time, right? Wrong. The registry displayed in regedit at the moment is Startup Repair’s limited diagnostics environment’s registry. Any changes you make to it will be undone when you restart your computer, by the way. Now we have to load your Windows installation’s registry hives.

Click on any key (for example, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), open the File menu, and click on Load hive…

In the box that appears, click on Computer, and open the drive where Windows is installed. Note: it might not have the same drive letter as it usually has, and it definitely won’t be X: (that’s Startup Repair’s temporary drive).

Go to “Windows\system32\config”. Here you will see a list of registry hives. You’ll probably want SOFTWARE or SYSTEM.

Select the registry hive of your choice. When prompted, enter a key name for that hive, for example, “windows-system“. Now a new key with the name you chose will appear inside the key you clicked in step 5. All registry entries in the hive you selected will appear under this key.

When you’ve finished editing the hive, click on its key, open the File menu and click unload key. You can also have multiple keys at once loaded too.

proceed to my first step at previous post.