Windows 7 login corrupt

Facing some issues on some computers this September month, so i am going to log it to the blog today.

To start with, windows 7 screen will appear with the usual startup after power on. Logo will come on as usual and for those that have a password login account, you log in by typing the password.

After that you will notice that after a few seconds a screen will notify you stating “The user profile service failed the logon, user profile cannot be loaded”. Then your next thought is that you have keyed in the wrong password and try to do key in again. Again same message appears.

Next you try to shut down, the power up the computer again and try to key in password again. Same message comes out. In big trouble now?

Let’s try to restart the computer press F8 key on the top first row keyboard button. Sometimes you have to press fast a few times until a screen comes out with a black screen with white text and words like

Repair your Computer

Safe Mode

Safe Mode With Networking

Safe Mode With Command Prompt

Etc….

First, try to “Repair your Computer” and follow the instructions and a screen will appear to try to repair. Let it run till finish, if you find that it takes too long and try to cancel, it will inform you that process is still running. Please do not restart or power off the computer at this stage, might do more harm than good.

If all goes well it will say repair successful, exit and restart the computer. See if you can go login your account.

If there is a problem, it will say that it can’t repair and you will be given an option to go to the startup recovery. Just shut down computer.

Right, if you still can login with the password, then we shall move to the next available option. Start the computer again and press F8 till you go back to the black screen again. This time choose the Safe Mode. Window screen appear and login in as usual.

If you can login here then you will see that everything is larger, no there is nothing wrong with your eyes and no the screen did not increase in size. When the computer runs in safe mode, it’s running on default setting and loads up basic command so that troubleshooting the computer is easier.

Next a screen will tell you that you are running in safe mode, just close that window screen. Most important thing to do now is to click on start menu button, at your left bottom screen. A menu comes out, click on All Programs, then Accessories, System Tools and System Restore.

It will say starting restore and a screen pops out with Restore system Files and Settings. Press next at the bottom to go next screen, it will then show you a number of date option or we call it restore point. The dates shown are for us to choose, to go back in time when we had no problem. (Wish I could do that with my life too, sigh!) 

Let’s continue, example, today is 27^th September and your problem started at 26^th September. So we may want to restore our computer back from 25^th or before. If you can’t find the dates available, there is an option below the dates to show more restore point. Choose a date and press next.

A screen will inform you that system restore is running and please do not shutdown or power off. Let it finish and it will restart by itself. And don’t go anywhere, when it’s restart, we need to go back to F8 again and Safe Mode to login again. A screen will then show you “System Restore Successful”. Now we can restart the computer and let it boot up on its own.

If everything goes well, you can now login with your password as usual and a final advice, PLEASE BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!

What desktop computer to buy?

There are lots and lots of choices of desktop computers in the market. So I am going to breakdown into steps of choosing which computers are suitable.

• Budget
• Usage
• Branded
• DIY
• Warranty

Budget

The first and most important thing is how much you would want to spend on a computer, USD400, USD1000, or USD2000? You have to set a limit. Why? The computer technology is moving faster and faster and speed, storage, hardware is changing often. What you may buy now would be obsolete around 2 to 3 years or sooner. You should consider this as well.

Right, once you got your limit set, now it time to go look for computer. Easiest way is to browse online to buy, but you may be tempted to buy above your set limit. So before you click on “buy now” let’s look at the Step 2.

Usage

What do you want to do on a computer?

Casual user, computer usage more towards typing a letter or two, using the internet to pay bills, check e-mails, check online flight bookings, music, watching videos, chatting and keeping up on Facebook with relatives and friends.

This you can do with a price range around USD 400.00. (Desktop with keyboard, mouse and monitor).

For the Office that requires heavy usage of multitasking and documentation and workload, price range should be around USD 600.00 to USD 700.00 (Desktop with keyboard, mouse and monitor). If requirement is low then casual user computer price around USD 400.00 will do just fine.

Heavy computer gamers are a total different story. Normally, they would want something that they can upgrade and add in additional hardware’s from time to time to keep up with the changing trend of games.

Here the minimum range is around USD 1700.00 to above the USD 10,000 mark.

Branded

HP, Dell, Lenovo, Benq, Acer, Razor and others, pick your choice. There are in different colors, size, and shapes. Noticeably, most would look into 3 main things like normal desktop size which is quite bulky, next will be the slim casing type which could save you space on your table and the newest type, the All-In-One which combines your desktop computer with the monitor into one. And quite slim too, like a picture frame.

 DIY (Do It Yourself)

For those that like to customize, then this would be a lot of fun, as they get to choose what type of hardware that goes into assembling the computer. Customize computer provides a more personal touch to who they are, like all things in life. Some say building a DIY computer is cheaper, but it depends on what you put into it.

These are normally for the gamers and those that are comfortable with new technologies and know what they want out of a computer which they call “rig”.

Warranty

Most computers come with a minimum warranty of 1 year, though some can provide up to 3 years with additional charges. The only issue that concerns me is, if the computer hardware breakdown within the warranty period. How long will the waiting period be, before the computer can be back in service again?

Normally most, Branded computer center will say 3 to 5 business working days. Some do provide onsite warranty (depends on what type of warranty, purchased as stated in agreement).

DIY warranty for computer rig depends on stock availability and most do not do 1 to 1 exchange. And they need to send it back to the supplier or manufacturer which might take a longer time, anywhere from 2 weeks to a month or longer.

So please take all these into consideration before making a purchase, to make sure your get the maximum benefit and pleasure, using the personal computer.

Search the internet

A lot of people are on the internet, and nowadays some cannot live without it, it’s so amazing what you can do and find on the internet. I see most of them use popular daily websites like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, E-mails, Forums and now Blogs too. What happens after that? Surely there is more, right?

School children are given assignment to do research on the internet.

Busy people that need the internet to get information fast.

Retired people that want to explore the internet.

When they open the internet browser, and try to look for something, most of them will spend a lot of time on a single subject. While it might be a good thing but I am guessing otherwise. WHY? Because there is too much data to handle and may not be searching correctly.

Let’s try 2 popular word, “youtube” and “car”.

When I search “youtube” I get this result and if I search “car” I get this result. (click to enlarge  picture)

See any difference? Youtube, about 5 billion results yet youtube website link is still first.

But for Car, about 3 billion results, but the word car is so general first link is to advertisement.

Still don’t understand?

Youtube is a unique word by itself and tons of people will recognize it for what it does, video clips.

This will push the word “youtube” to the top or we call it ranking as it is popular.

Example like a popular song will always hit the top of the song chart because many people like it or purchase it.

As for Car, tons and tons of people use it, love it hate it cares for it and some spends a lot on it. But on the internet it’s just a general word, nothing unique.

So, how to make the word “car” more interesting?

Answer

• KEYWORD. Your “word” is the key to unlock what will show on the internet.
• Choose combination words like Volvo car, Volvo car engine, Volvo car forum and see what results is displayed.
• Be more creative in word search. Since you know car is a general word, get rid of the word car and    instead, use the car names for a unique search: Ferrari, BMW, Nissan, Ford and etc.
• From here on, you can refine your search even more like year made of the model, if you are looking for spare parts or if you intend to modify it.

So the intention is to cut down the search, find what you need and save time so that you can do more or do more on other things on your mind or if you are on a tight dateline. Sometime, certain keyword will appear from the searched links. As you go along, you will find that the more you use the faster the result because you are making use of the keyword search instead of going round and round looking and poking into the vast information library.

Yes, it’s a huge library, but luckily we have search engines to help us do the indexing. What are search engines? They are a program that’s written to help search the internet using a “spider” that goes around looking for websites, identify what the website does, slot it correctly like filing and storing it. And when you do the search on the internet browser it will then display the results for you to see.

Popular Search Engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.

Popular Internet Browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc.

In a rush

Have gone through a phase, when you come to the office, sit down ready for work, and phone starts ringing. As you answer the call you switch one the computer and make small talk with the client while taking their purchase orders. Call ends, computer is ready, you start clicking on the mouse, opening files and typing on the keyboard. Then your boss calls you from your desk and informs you, there are documents which is top priority, needs amendment and sent out by afternoon.

Okay boss, will get right on it. After documents are done and just as you are about to print, you colleague comes by the desk and ask whether you are able to help on the big pile of documents needs sorting and filed. Okay, you replied and thinking to yourself, I will print my boss documents afterward, still have lots of time till dateline to send out. Its lunch time when the sorting is done and you colleague said, lunch is on me.

Now, when you get back to the office, you remembered that the boss documents still need to be printed, going back to your desktop computer clicking on the file to open it up. But nothing, nothing was showing on the screen. Okay, will try again, this time close all the application on windows. Then going back to the file and double click but no application on screen, this time you are getting worried. Phone starts ringing. As you answer phone call, you try to troubleshoot the problem. Cleaning up temporary files and did a virus scan took almost an hour.

Tried opening the document file again and still application will not start, this time the worry becomes panic mode. Nobody in the office was able to help too, so a call to the computer technician is the best thing to do.

I went to the office, and my client told me what had happen as above, while I was troubleshooting the application that won’t open the document. I tried most of the standard procedure, other applications is working fine, had me puzzled as another hour pass by and it’s almost 4pm now. Then as a last resort, I informed my client that I’m going shut down the computer and asked if anything needs saving. Answer was no, go ahead and do the shutdown.

I open up the side casing cover to check the hardware inside the computer and everything looks good and tidy, so I put the back cover. I let the computer cool down for a few minutes and power it back on again. This time when I open the file document the application starts readily without a problem and quickly printed the documents. Really can’t describe the expression of relieve from my client face. It’s like being sad, worried and happy all mixed in one.  Now that the documents are done, I again shut down the computer and did the same process, no problem, can open application file. So eventually, the only explanation I could give was a glitch on the application.

My point of writing this article is because, I have seen computer getting banged and kicked at for reasons of being unresponsive to command. Maybe they are in a rush or maybe they are stressed out due to pressure to complete certain task with dateline. So the computer becomes the target to vent their frustration.

Another point is, computers are mostly built on logical principle, and the input/output is only either yes or no, but logic sometimes is very hard to define, like air. We breathe in air, we feel the air on our face as wind blows but we cannot see air with our eyes. So I will try my best to troubleshoot computer always following the logical procedure first and if all fails then the illogical.