Deleted Guest Account folder

[TornadoStorm]

Hello!
I was cleaning my system of useless files and I seemed to have mistakenly deleted the Guest account folder in C:\Users

I have tried scanning for file errors on system in all the ways I could think of, restarting computer, turning guest account on and off, both of the previous 2 combined, re-installing all windows updates and searching for an online solution but still when I try to log in to the Guest account it says something like "Could not load account".
I cannot restore system to an earlier state as I have done quite important things on this computer.

I was thinking maybe someone could upload a Guest folder packed in an archive so I can use that to replace it?

using standard windows 8 64-bit
Please help!

 

[Brink]

Hello TornadoStorm, and welcome to Eight Forums.

Deleting the "C:\Users\Guest" folder would only delete the account's profile, and not the account itself. See if this may be able to help.

1) Turn off and disable the Guest account.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/35326-guest-account-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

User Account - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Help Forums​

2) Restart the computer.

3) Turn on the guest account.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/35326-guest-account-turn-off-windows-8-a.html​

4) See if you are able to sign in to the guest account.

 

[TornadoStorm]

Hello TornadoStorm, and welcome to Eight Forums.

Deleting the "C:\Users\Guest" folder would only delete the account's profile, and not the account itself. See if this may be able to help.

1) Turn off and disable the Guest account.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/35326-guest-account-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

User Account - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Help Forums​

2) Restart the computer.

3) Turn on the guest account.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/35326-guest-account-turn-off-windows-8-a.html​

4) See if you are able to sign in to the guest account.

Thank you

I have already noted that I did that and it hasn't worked :/
Would it be alright if you could upload a Guest folder so that I could download it and place the folder?

 

[Brink]

I'm afraid that would most likely not work.

What was the full error message you got when trying to sign in to the Guest account?

 

[TornadoStorm]

I'm afraid that would most likely not work.

What was the full error message you got when trying to sign in to the Guest account?

The error message was: "The user profile service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded."
That was all the text that displayed on the login screen along with the image of the Guest account profile picture.

 

[TornadoStorm]

I have just found out that I cannot login to any other accounts apart from one administrator account on this computer
It doesn't seem to create the folder in C:\Users for new accounts I create and it shows the same error as trying to login to the Guest account! Could this be some sort of virus or have I done something wrong to my computer?

 

[Brink]

In that case, see if you may be able to use OPTION ONE in the tutorial below to fix this error.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/38838-user-profile-service-failed-sign-fix-windows-8-a.html

 

[TornadoStorm]

In that case, see if you may be able to use OPTION ONE in the tutorial below to fix this error.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/38838-user-profile-service-failed-sign-fix-windows-8-a.html

I do not see any entry that matches any of my accounts exept the one I am using now that sin't affected

 

[Brink]

The long SID key with 501 at the end is used for the "Guest" account. Delete any key for it, restart the PC, to see if that may help with the Guest account when turned back on afterwards.

If that fails, then I'm not sure what else may help other than a system restore using a restore point dated before this started.

 

[TornadoStorm]

The long SID key with 501 at the end is used for the "Guest" account. Delete any key for it, restart the PC, to see if that may help with the Guest account when turned back on afterwards.

If that fails, then I'm not sure what else may help other than a system restore using a restore point dated before this started.

I wasn't able to find one of those either :/ I guess the best I can do right now is to just backup my files somewhere on a separate device and then restore. Thank you for your support though! I appreciate it

 

[Brink]

Just to clarify that a system restore is not the same as a "factory restore".

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/4692-system-restore-how-do-windows-8-a.html

 

[topgundcp]

If you wish, you could try to restore the registry.

1. Boot up from the recovery disk and run the Admin command prompt
2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack
3. copy SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM, DEFAULT to C:\Windows\System32\config