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Anonymous
2011-04-15T07:13:08+00:00

I got this error message once login after a window update "C:Windows\system32\Config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible. Access is Denied."  I am using Windows 7 Home Edition.

My desktop becomes black.  All my icons are gone.  The toolbar at the bottom became grey.  How can this be resolved?

I had once unable to access my user account.  Are these occurrence related?

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-04-15T18:16:24+00:00

    My screen didn't turn black. I successfully login to my account, but all the personalization was gone, and the error message came up

    C:Windows\system32\Config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible. Access is Denied.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-09-17T03:42:16+00:00

    My screen is black with grey toolbar  and same  thing pops up C:\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible Access is Denied. I know exactly  what happened  and what i did. I just dont know how to reverse it cause it now wont let me back into the services so i cant fix it. I changed the settings in services stupid  i  now know that is not a bright idea . i was trying to  stop  having all these hosts on my process  table so i thought if i stop some services  it would block them  . it just made it  worse  so now i  cant  download anything i cant acess windows update system services nothing .Help Please and to make my matter even worse i dont have a disk drive i have a tablet pc.

    I got this error message once login after a window update "C:Windows\system32\Config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible. Access is Denied."  I am using Windows 7 Home Edition.

    My desktop becomes black.  All my icons are gone.  The toolbar at the bottom became grey.  How can this be resolved?

    I had once unable to access my user account.  Are these occurrence related?

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-30T20:32:28+00:00

    I got this error message once login after a window update "C:Windows\system32\Config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible. Access is Denied."  I am using Windows 7 Home Edition.

    My desktop becomes black.  All my icons are gone.  The toolbar at the bottom became grey.  How can this be resolved?

    I had once unable to access my user account.  Are these occurrence related?

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-03-17T17:52:19+00:00

    I have the same problem in Windows 8.1 Pro.

    I am amazed that nobody from Microsoft have answered even from 2011 to this issue !

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