During an attempt to sign in, if Windows displays the Please wait for the User Profile Service message for a long time, say 5 minutes, then that post will help you ...

Nothing short of normal Windows updates have been installed recently, and I've no idea how long this problem has existed, as my standard user account along with the admin account still work just fine.

Every Windows computer has a built-in Administrator account. We can now activate and use this Administrator account to build a new User Profile for you. Another interesting workaround that people have ...

Windows 10 users are reporting that a second Windows update included in this month's Patch Tuesday is causing problems. According to reports, a bug in the KB4532693 update is hiding user profiles and ...

A free and unofficial patch is now available for a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows User Profile Service that lets attackers gain SYSTEM privileges under certain ...