Missing Profile On Windows 7 Home

When clicking on the user account the error message “User profile service failed” appears.

1) Log into safe mode. Luckily this allowed access to the account with the missing profile.
a) If the above fails, use at the DOS prompt: net user administrator /active:yes
This will enable the hidden administrator account. From there you can create a new account.

2) Restored the profile by navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList in RegEdit.

3) Found the missing profile with a .bak extension. Removed the .bak and the profile loaded OK.

More information can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215