Windows Tips

1) Windows 8 Does not boot from CD ?

    New Windows 8 computers are required to have UEFI rather than the BIOS.
And, these systems have a feature called Secure Boot that won't let you easily boot from a CD.

Disable Secure Boot and enable Legacy mode in the UEFI in order to boot from a CD.  Then be sure to switch it back before attempting to boot back into Windows.

2) If you are getting a "The user Profile Service failed the logon" message.

Steps:-

1. Restart your computer and boot into Safe Mode
2. Click on the Start menu, type Regedit and hit Enter to start the Registry Editor.
3. Using the left-hand panel, browse to  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/ CurrentVersion/ProfileList.
4. You'll see some folders with the name starting S-1-5 followed by a long number. Click on each one in turn, then in the Main Window look at the ProfileImagePath and make sure it's the account with the problem. This is the name of the user folder and contains the name of the username it relates to
5. If you have two folders for your username, and one ends in .bak, you need to do this: right-click the folder that doesn't have .bak in it, select rename and add '.ba' to the end of the name. Rename the folder with .bak in it, deleting the .bak part of the name. If you have one folder with a .bak at the end, rename to remove the .bak part.