We recently enabled UAC in our organization. Now when users login to a machine for the first time and try to establish a new profile, they get "user profile cannot be loaded". Users with existing profiles on the same machine can login with no problem. We also see the following in event viewer:
Windows cannot copy file C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\SqmApi\SqmData720896_00.sqm to location C:\Users\Guest\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\SqmApi\SqmData720896_00.sqm. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.
We have found 2 ways to fix this: 1. disable UAC. 2. delete the .sqm files from the error listed above. However, we do not want to disable UAC. We could run a script to remove all of the sqm files from the default user profile.
What we really want to know is where are these files coming from? Not all machines have them, and we do not install Windows Live on our images. How can we resolve this without disabling UAC? Is there not a MS fix for this? It's clearly UAC that's causing the permissions problem with copying these Windows Live files to a new profile.
FYI - we see this on multiple Dell modles Latitue and Optiplex both 32bit and 64bit Win7Ent.