During an attempt to sign in, if Windows displays the Please wait for the User Profile Service message for a long time, say 5 minutes, then that post will help you ...

Nothing short of normal Windows updates have been installed recently, and I've no idea how long this problem has existed, as my standard user account along with the admin account still work just fine.

For everything that takes place on a Windows computer, the operating system considers it as an Event internally. So, when any processes or tasks go wrong, a user can trace out the exact breakpoint.

I was testing the "Delete user profiles older than a specified number of days on system restart" local policy on two Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit) computers that are used a lot by students, so I ...