standard user accounts stopped working

My standard user accounts worked fine until recently. Now, when my children
log in, they get a blank screen -- no desktop, no icons, no cursor, nothing.
I changed their accounts to administrator accounts, and the accounts work
again -- although, of course, my kids can change things that I don't want
them to change. Anybody else have this problem? Did one of those relentless
Windows updates mess up the user accounts? How can I get the Standard User
accounts working again?

brink;537018 Wrote:
> > Puzzled Dad;536788 Wrote:
> > My standard user accounts worked fine until recently. Now, when my
> > children
> > log in, they get a blank screen -- no desktop, no icons, no cursor,
> > nothing.
> > I changed their accounts to administrator accounts, and the accounts
> > work
> > again -- although, of course, my kids can change things that I don't
> > want
> > them to change. Anybody else have this problem? Did one of those
> > relentless
> > Windows updates mess up the user accounts? How can I get the Standard
> > User
> > accounts working again?> >
>
> Hi Puzzled Dad,
>
> I'm not sure what may have caused this, but you might just create
> them new Standard User accounts and transfer their old files to the
> new account within your Administrator account. When you have
> everything transfered over, just delete the old user accounts.
>
> Shawn


I'm having the same issues as Puzzled Dad and I tried the solution that
was offered above. Unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.

I also attempted to use "sfc /scannow" from the CMD.EXE program to
repair any corrupt files but was greeted with the message that it was
unable to repair them and there would be a log (which i dont
understand).

Does anyone else have any ideas as to what could be causing this to
happen? or how i can fix it?


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