Questions tagged [user-profiles]
Questions about a user's profile, home folder and user space files.
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Windows 10 - The LoadUserProfile call failed with the following error: Element not found
I noticed that my SQL Server service was not running. I tried restarting the service, but it failed.
I went the the Event Manager and discovered that the LoadUserPofile call was failing with the ...
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Who should be the owner for a user under C:\Users\UserName, Administrators or System?
I noticed that the user folder, C:\Users\User-Name-Here shows Owner as Administrators(PC-NAME\Administrators).
Other users folders show the folder owner as System.
Is this normal? If so what ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent to ~/.local/bin?
On Ubuntu, the default path includes /usr/bin, which is where most system applications are installed via sudo. The equivalent on Windows is C:\Program Files, protected by UAC. (Of course, it's more ...
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Restoring files from deleted users $Recycle.bin
I'm stuck on a problem that I feel shouldn't be so hard to crack, but I can't find a good solution for it.
I was handed a user's Windows 10 VM. For some reason, the original domain user account got ...
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Keep Thunderbird from fetching emails that were imported from user profile as duplicates
I just imported my Thunderbird user profile from my desktop PC to my laptop PC, everything was fine until I started receiving a hundred thousand emails that already exist in my mailboxes (I'm using ...
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On Google Chrome, is there a way to start with a new Google Account profile on Windows command line?
I'm using public computers.
On Google Chrome, is there a way to start with a Google Account profile on Windows command line? This account is new to Chrome, since what I want is to login into a browser ...
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PowerShell script to delete Windows profiles fails to get proper timestamp
Note: I cannot do this by GPO, as my group has no control over that. DelProf2 has the same issues with timestamps.
I wrote a script to delete old profiles, due to the drives on multiuser devices ...
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Deleting a Window profile manually kills the start button
First: I cannot use GPO as that is outside the contract. DelProf2 does not properly recognize profile timestamps.
I wrote a script to delete old user profiles, and it worked fine until Windows 10 1909....
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Profile sync daemon - constant lack of space errors even though there's plenty of space
I just recently started using profile-sync-daemon on a Debian system to sync my Firefox profile with a tmpfs in RAM in order to speed my system up. It seems to be working fine. However, when I try to ...
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Windows 10 logon very slow
I have quite quite common but in details very specific problem. Windows 10 machine logon takes minutes. 3-5, maybe even more.
I tried to edit and turn off all startup programs
I tried to run with ...
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Thunderbird ignores my migrated profile and asks to create a new one
I am not able to migrate my Thunderbird mail profile to my new laptop on Windows 11 (old computer was Windows 10 though I don't think it matters). Thunderbird ignores the profile data and asks me to ...
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How to retain site login in MS Edge from one PC to another or after reformat?
In Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 after I login to superuser.com say, next time when I access superuser.com again in MS Edge I am automatically logged in to my username account.
Like that I have a few ...
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Purpose of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\<SID> - "IsUpgrade"
I just came across a workstation with MANY keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion. I'm familiar with the ProfileList and ProfileGUID subkeys, but was srpprised to ...
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User home share persistently inaccessible in default profile after using `runas`
I'm in an environment where much of our profile information is redirected to a network share (e.g. \\foo\Home\myuser)
Recently, I was attempting to access a network share as otheruser, and after ...
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How to force Windows to rerun the user profile setup/upgrade procedure manually?
I was running Windows 11, but I guess this applies to Windows 10 as well.
I had a semi-broken user-profile on Windows 11 (start menu not opening, the whole taskbar reverted to the Win10 variant ...
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How to create a temporary user account on OS X
I want to create one or more user accounts in OS X that operate similar, but not the same, to a Guest user account in OS X:
Files created by a guest are stored in a temporary folder, but that
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Issues when Windows 10 Account Username Includes Space
In most versions of Windows I have used, and currently using Windows 10, having a space within the account username poses problems, particularly with paths and when the input doesn't accept a path ...
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Difference container and user profile
EDIT: I want to create a "portable user profile" or "portable set of gui apps with their custom files and settings".
I don't understand the difference between having a separate ...
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Powershell script completely removing user profile, user's folder, and user's registry key for dormant accounts
I'm trying to create a Powershell script that removes from a Windows computer a user's profile, a user's folder in "C:\Users", and a user's registry key in "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\...
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User profile cannot be loaded and pin is disabled
I was doing a factory reset on my computer, when everything was finished I get this error when I try to log in:
User profile cannot be loaded
And here's what I've tried:
I've tried to start the ...
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Windows 7 can not find the local profile after moving home directory in registry
I just installed an additional hard drive into my Windows 7 PC and want to move the home directory (D:\Users\Name) to the new hard drive. To do this, I robocopied the old directory to the new drive (...
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USERNAME folder missing, after accidentally moving Downloads folder to Users in C: drive
This and this is the actual problem, with the %UserProfile% folder renamed to Download and I cannot change it:
I'm also not able to access the %UserProfile%\Download folder from This PC:
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Stopping a recurrence of a corrupt windows 10 profile
On my laptop I keep getting a recurring problem. I turn it on and it shouts at me that login service have failed and it logs me into a fresh default profile.
This is a reasonably common problem, lots ...
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Is the same Windows registry shared between all user profiles?
I have two user profiles on my Windows 10 PC, a developer profile and a regular profile. In the developer profile, I ran a .reg file to add a context menu item that opens a Windows Terminal instance ...
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What are the folders "Desktop" and "[My full name]" in Windows 10?
I have been investigating the folders "Desktop" and "[My full name]".
When I type "Desktop" into Windows Explorer, I get a folder that is not C:\Users\\[username]\Desktop,...
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windows roaming profile alternative from the local admin perspective
i have to login daily to multiple (30) windows servers.
while i am not a domain administrator, i do have admin rights for these 30 servers.
sometimes i have to make changes to my home folder, like add ...
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Where does FireFox store extension's data on macOS?
I've seen a couple related questions, but they're either Windows-specific, or out-of-date — my FireFox profiles/BLAH.a2rad folder doesn't include a browser-extension-data subfolder.
A couple specific ...
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Profiles issues - Mozilla Firefox VS Chrome
Till now I was working with Google Chrome with different profiles, each one synchronized with a different gmail account.
I would like to move to Mozilla Firefox. I saw that firefox has also profiles, ...
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Setting up a new mac to avoid "system" folders like Documents, Music, Desktop, etc
As a computational scientist, I spend a lot of time working on my macbook pro at the command line. I'm setting up a new laptop and it's time to rethink some of my setup.
It's always bothered me that ...
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Create Edge profile with custom name
I want to create several Edge-profiles for my users. By running the following Powershell commands I can create two profiles:
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\...
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User profile folders data Backup/transfer
looking a simple way to backup/transfer User profile data like Desktop, Documents, Downloads etc before doing any changes on system or installing a windows.
Any guides?
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Redirected Windows 10 Desktop Directory Resisting View Configuration
A user's Desktop directory / shortcut has been redirected to a network share, by specifying that network share in the directory's Properties > Location tab.
As noted, this causes the directory icon ...
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Copy back previous user and program folders after Windows reinstallation?
Has anyone ever tried, after a fresh Windows installation, to simply restore the previous user (C:\Users) and programs folders (C:\Program Files (x86), C:\Program Files) from the previous installation,...
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Powershell and $HOME variable: broken if you move your default data folders to another drive?
While playing with powershell, I've just noticed that the $HOME variable won't give me the correct result if the user's data folders are moved to a different drive. For instance, let's assume two ...
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Can't login to my profile after a change in the ProfileImagePath
I'm on windows 10 and I entered the registry and changed the ProfileImagePath's value
As soon as I had done that, my pc broke, couldn't access files and not even the start menu.
I restaarted it and ...
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How do I share multiple chrome profiles between machines?
Chrome allows creating additional user profiles. But for sync, you need an account. I sure have got one in my default Chrome profile. So, can I use it in these additional Chrome profiles as well? Will ...
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Google Chrome macOS: transfer all user profiles and passwords
To have a backup to my main Mac, I bought another one with basic specs. I manage a lot of social media profiles and therefore have a lot of chrome profiles to manage different business logins, email ...
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How to fully reset Edge?
I'm facing several weird issues with the Edge browser on Windows 10 (see here) which seem to be related to my user profile; if I create a new user account, Edge shows no issues.
I already tried ...
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How do you control what's under the "User's Files" folder on the Desktop?
On a Windows 10 user's Desktop, there is a folder that can be displayed which is a representation of the user's special/known folders. It looks similar to %userprofile%, but I don't think it's the ...
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unix user account start and end dates
Where I used to work the operating system was Solaris, and I found that in addition to the standard utility functions for looking up information about UNIX user IDs and group names such as getpwuid, ...
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Windows resetting all the data everytime I sign in
I recently got into a strange and weird problem with windows 10. When I booted my pc today, It, as usual, asked for my pin and on Welcome screen, It showed the "Preparing Windows..."message. ...
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LibreOfficePortable - shared drive / multi user
I'd like to use the binaries of LibreOfficePortable with more users in one shared drive, example:
Z:\LibreOfficePortable\LibreOfficeDrawPortable.exe
By default this is not possible as the profile is ...
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Changing the first created username in Windows 10 [duplicate]
At startup of my new Windows 10 PC I created a local administrator account (not a Microsoft account as I wasn't connected to the internet). Unfortunately when asked who was going to use this computer ...
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How to run two instances of chrome browser each using separate (user + profile)
on linux laptop Ubuntu 20.04 I am running two launches of chrome each with its own user with a unique profile as launched from terminal using
/opt/google/chrome/chrome --profile-directory=...
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Can i have a private / user-specific etc folder?
I am often fiddling about with software built from source, which i install in $HOME/.local. To make it run, i have to export various variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But i do not want to have to ...
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Why is firefox complaining that it can't open my profile?
I'm trying to get Firefox working with multiple profiles (under Fedora 33). This isn't a new configuration; I've had this all working successfully in the past, but suddenly Firefox seems unhappy. If I ...
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Isolating (separating) two users in Windows 10
Title says it all --- my problem is that there are two users and one machine running Windows 10. My goal is to separate two administrator users to the extent that after you select one of user profiles ...
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Windows 10 User Desktop, Documents, & Download folders disappear when redirected
We have found that in Windows 10, a user's Desktop, Documents, and Download folders disappear from c:\users\%username%\ when redirected to a network share.
Nevertheless, these folders remain visible ...
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The same local profile for domain users on server?
We have a Security Group in AD: ACL_SRV1_USERS. It contains domain accounts USR1, USR2 and USR3.
I need to setup a same local profile for this users/Security Group on member server SRV1.
They needs ...
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Fix Corrupted User Profile on Windows 10
I have a bunch of problems with my PC and thanks to some comments in another (now closed) question I found that it is actually my user profile which was corrupted and 2nd (newly created) user is free ...
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