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You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message

When you log on to a Windows Servers by using a temporary profile, you receive the following error message:
The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.
Occasionally, Windows might not read your user profile correctly, such as if your antivirus software is scanning your computer while you try to log on. Before you follow the methods here, try restarting your computer and logging on with your user account again to resolve the issue. If you restart your computer and it does not resolve this issue, use the following methods to resolve this issue.
Fix the User Account Profile
Please connect to the remote registry and follow the below steps to resolve the issue.
This error occurs when the profile folder is deleted from C drive but still the entry is present in registry

1) Click Start, type regedit in the Search box, and then press ENTER.

2) In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

3) In the navigation pane, locate the folder that begins with S-1-5 (SID key) followed by a long number.

4) Click each S-1-5 folder, locate the ProfileImagePath entry in the details pane, and then double-click to make sure that this is the user account profile that has the error.


* If you have two folders starting with S-1-5 followed by some long numbers and one of them ended     with .bak, you have to rename the .bak folder. To do this, follow these steps:
         1) Right-click the folder without .bak, and then click Rename. Type .ba, and then press                            ENTER.
         2) Right-click the folder that is named .bak, and then click Rename. Remove .bak at the end of                the folder name, and then press ENTER.
          3) Right-click the folder that is named .ba, and then click Rename. Change the .ba to .bak at                    the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.
  • If you have only one folder starting with S-1-5 that is followed by long numbers and ends with .bak. Right-click the folder, and then click Rename. Remove .bak at the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.
    • 5) Click the folder without .bak in the details pane, double-click RefCount, type 0, and then click OK.

      6) Click the folder without .bak, in the details pane, double-click State, type 0, and then                 click OK.

           7) Close Registry Editor.

            8) Restart the computer.

             9) Log on again with your account.

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