Laptop is 5yrs old but used daily/mainly for heavy photography processing, Internet news/shopping sites, emails. I tried restarting & rebooting many times, nothing helps! Before this, laptop had been slower & more sluggish than usual but no warnings about low battery (about 1yr old.)
You need a system repair disk so that you can boot up to a dos command prompt. Sometimes you might be able to get a command prompt from booting up in Safe Mode. Windows 8 and 10 have a startup repair that will allow you to get to a command prompt in the advanced options of the startup repair options. If you can get to a dos command prompt there is an hidden administrator account on all computers just for when a problem like this happens. You need to make the hidden administrator account active then you can sign on with it and go into the control panel and create a new user account with administrative rights (or as an administrator). You can then copy all your data from your old user account to the new user account that you created. You might get a message such as "you don't have permission to this account or folder'" when you try to copy you data from one to the other, just click ok and it will allow you to have permission. To activate the administrator account just type this at the dos command: net user administrator /active:yes (when you are done you just change yes to no and the account will be hidden again) but you can always leave it active.
Enable the Hidden Administrator Account on Windows 7 8 or 10
SOURCE: Laptop performance gradually getting slower and slower
Stat>Run> type MSCONFIG>OK>Startup>Disable all>Apply>OK> Reboot system
When reboots, say OK to pop-up message.
SOURCE: Dell Studio Laptop- Cannot Log On Message- User
I had one case like this before where there was another user on the machine who loaded the user profile hive in the registry and then forgot to unload it. Therefore when the user tried to log in, it gave them the message just like yours because it's "in use" by the registry. If there is another user on your machine, please ensure that this person unloaded the hive in the registry. And then try logging in again. Please let me know if the problem persists. If my suggestion works, please do rate me. Thanks.
SOURCE: the computer restarts on it own
Hi, go to the "Start Menu," type in the Start Search window; (power), in the next window there will be a "list" of Options in the "Task area, choose the "Sleep and Wake Up category, change the "wake up" this will stop the computer from starting up on its own. "Rating the solution on its helpfulness is appreciated, thanks."
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