====== Assertion failed ======

If you get the following error message, 

{{:windowsuser:fehlermeldung_assertion_failed.png|Assertation failed}}

Since May, 1st, 2021 the following solution will not work anymore.


<del>please follow these steps:</del>

  * <del>Mark and copy this address: "\\softwarerepo.fak2.win.tu-berlin.de\software\OpenAFS\Reset Settings in Network Identity Manager.reg"</del>
  * <del>Open the explorer and paste the copied address</del>
  * <del>You get a message. Please choose: execute</del>
  * <del>Now you would be ask to execute. Please to do so (yes)</del>
  * <del>You get an information, that the registration data would be "added" to the registry. The registry is clean up now. </del>
  * <del>Please log off an log on again</del>
  * <del>The error message shouldn't pop up again.</del>

Copy the following lines to a text file, and save it with the extension .reg.
Double Click on the reg-file, to import the settings. This will delete the two Regkeys.

<code>
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MIT]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MIT\kerberos5]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MIT\NetIDMgr]
</code>

If the error still exists, please [[windowsuser:how_to_reset_your_profile| reset your profile]].