The other day my computer got stuck on the "Shutting down..." screen so I ended up shutting it down by force, something which I have grown to regret. On bootup, a whole bunch of extremely weird things started happening which led me to restore from an earlier date and led me to where I am now. My error/"Details" is almost a perfect replication of:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-performance/event-id-1542-user-profile-service-and-missing/d7df458e-f8f7-4e2f-bd65-16b9ceeb5631?auth=1I'm getting a BUNCH of errors in Windows Event Viewer all complaining that Windows couldn't load classes registry file. In the registry, there is no entry in the hivelist for the current user classes.
However, symptoms include the wallpaper not loading, not being able to bring up the Start Menu, etc. I believe I have really brought it down to the user profile not getting fully loaded correctly. However, the fix is not entirely clear, since all guides that I've found were for Windows 7 or before, and the fixes did not appear to work on my Windows 10 box. I would prefer to be able to fix the user account currently in place as opposed to creating a new main user account.
As a note, if I create a new account and log into that one, the Start Menu/Wallpaper work just fine, it's just my main account that's broken.
Some people are saying that it means the NTUSER.DAT file is corrupt and that recreating it fixes the issue. If that is truly the case, could someone point me in the direction of recreating that file?
Thanks again.