Questions tagged [user-profiles]
Questions about a user's profile, home folder and user space files.
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How to prevent a Firefox parental add-on from being bypassed by editing files in the profile directory or creating a new profile?
FoxFilter is an add-on for Firefox that is supposed to provide parental control.
However, I found the add-on to be easily bypassable in at least three ways:
By running the Firefox profile manager ...
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Should I copy ntuser.dat when I move a user profile?
When I copy a user profile from one hard drive to another one (I'm replacing the HDD), do I need to copy ntuser.dat and ntuser.ini ?
I'm asking because I wonder if it doesn't contain the user's ...
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Using WIndows 7 SR1
I work in a company that does net support for 20 different schools. While working on accounts I might log my "test" computer in 10 different domains in one day.
After a few days a login goes from ...
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The translation of a user-shell-folder is lost
In a Dutch installation of Windows-10 I had originally correct Dutch names for the user-shell folders like 'Documents' and 'Pictures', ie. in Dutch 'Documenten' and 'Afbeeldingen'.
Unfortunately I ...
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Lost files while deleting users [duplicate]
I was trying to stop the need to login every time my screen went to sleep using Windows 10. I did not succeed, what I did do however was to delete my main user profile that contained all of my ...
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Secondary hard drive contains exact copy of my user profile
I'm running Windows 10 version 1511 (build 10586.63). Windows is installed on my SSD (drive C:) and my hard drive (F:) is used for holding various data.
This evening I noticed that drive F: contains -...
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Is there any way to change %USERPROFILE% for one application only?
Well my question is just what is says in the title:
I have a application that seems to have charset conversion issues with my %USERPROFILE% directory. Is there any way to change the location of %...
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How to rename the User folder to default Microsoft-account folder-name in Windows 10?
I installed Windows 10 on one of my PCs when the machine was offline.
So Windows created a local account.
Later when that device went online, I linked it with my Microsoft account,
but now that ...
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Can I unlink my Windows (8-10) computer user profile from my hotmail account?
When I got my computer, Windows basically demanded that I put in my hotmail account information. I have now upgraded to Windows 10.
I would like to know if it is possible to now unlink my Windows ...
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Windows 10 Administrator account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator [duplicate]
I recently had a problem after installing Windows 10 which required me to start in Safe Mode to rectify it. Since this I can no longer "restart" and the only screen that comes up is:
Administrator
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make NTFS Junction system hidden on Windows
I'm trying to migrate my user profile to a separate partition, and I've got to the point of adding the compatibility system Junctions to the new profile. However I don't want to see them in my profile ...
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Windows cannot find the local profile
My computer was infected and the damage was almost completely removed. The only problem that persists is that my local profile on Windows XP is corrupted. When I try to log on, I get the following ...
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System owns this folder
Occasionally I get messages telling me I can't access, modify or delete specific files and folders, even when I am an admin. For example the windows.old folder because system owns it.
I am on Windows ...
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Windows 7 logon failure- User ID and password appears to expire over weekend
In September, a user was upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. We are in a corporate setting, so, we are on a network. This user previously had NO issues logging onto her laptop or the network. ...
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Proper way to transfer user profile from Win 8.1 to Win 10?
I am replacing some of my coworker's computers. The old computers have Windows 8.1 and the new computers have Windows 10. In the past when both computers had Windows 8.1 I would just copy the entire ...
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Is there a way to set daily time limits for user on a windows 7 PC?
I want to limit some users daily computer usage on the family PC. Currently we only have one user account set up on it, but I could create new ones. So Is there a way to set daily time limits for user ...
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Issues searching emails in Outlook 2010 after index rebuild
Users issue: when searching for any text query in any mailbox in Outlook 2010 (even if the text string is visible in an email shown in the current mailbox), nothing comes up after entering the text in ...
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How can I reuse an old user name?
After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 Home my (local) user profile seems to be broken.
So I want to create a new local profile but using the old user name.
Therefore, I renamed the existing ...
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Win creates TEMP profile after I delete local roaming profile data (Win7)
At my newly aquired work as a IT guy I've run into an issue with deleting local user profile data on roaming profiles.
Whenever I delete a profile on a local machine (I do it the proper way through "...
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Contacts folder replacing user profile
So I wanted to move some user folders that I don't use (favorites, contacts, links, ect..) into a dummy folder. Well, stupid me somehow made the contacts folder replace my user profile, so the ...
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User gets logged on with temporary profile - Windows 2012 R2 RDS
We have a Windows 2012 R2 RDS running as a virtual machine. From time to time, no specific shedule identifiable, a user session will be redirected to a temporary profile.
Whenever this happens we ...
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How can I move between computers while maintaining the user's session?
I run a small home domain network so that everything is managed centrally- programs, files, etc. There are a few users and both laptops & desktops are used on the domain.
For many reasons I often ...
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Windows 7 user folder hidden
A friend has a problem with her Windows 7 computer. Her user folder has disappeared from C:\Users. She can login, all files are there, but the folder is not visible inside the Users folder.
A week ...
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Removing the Chrome profile name button
I am unable to remove the Chrome profile name button. I go to the Chrome flags and I disable
Enable new profile management system Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
But when I restart my name ...
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How to deleting user data in Windows 7 on shutdown or start up
I want to make it so a user account is fresh every time someone logs on but I want to keep the desktop background,start menu,and the tool bar. How would I do this? I tried deleting the user profile ...
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How to restore D:\Users back to C:\Users after move [Vista]
What will be the best way be to restore D:\Users back to C:\Users after move? Computer is running on Vista OS and I think to get Users folder on another partition was used method described here https:/...
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Unable to login to my old local User/Profile
I am running a Windows 7 on my Laptop. Quite recently our office got a Windows Server 2012. Now the IT guy created a Domain User on my laptop to connect to the server.
Afterwords when I tried to ...
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Delete Windows 7 cached credentials for all the users
I know how to delete my profile's cached credentials. The issue comes when theres is a user that get locked out again and again due to a credential cached within another user profile.
If you go to ...
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Firefox: restore all default font settings
Recently I installed Firefox 40.0.3 on a new system. I copied my old user profile (created under an earlier version of FF) and so far everything works.
However, in my old profile, there are lots of ...
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Setting the picture password in windows 10 never applies
I've set the picture password on windows 10 but at the log in screen I never see the picture, I am only able to log in with the password or the PIN. Local account, not on a domain.
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Unload User Data in Windows 10
How can I totally unload User Data Session when I sign out, restart or shutdown my PC in Windows 10? Because I always have continuously error recorded in event viewer every time I sign out from my ...
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explorer.exe, windows 10 slow login with one user
I have 3 users on my computer using Windows 10. One of them recently became slow to login (6 seconds instead of 2). I looked in event viewer and both users have the same history when loging in. It ...
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User Profile Service Failed User Profile Could Not Be Loaded on Windows 10
I've upgraded to Windows 10 in the last few weeks, and I had to update some drivers to get things working. Aside from that, it has been great.
Now I am trying to create a new user via the Settings ...
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How do I change the User Profile location in Windows 10?
The default location for User Profiles are C:\Users. I would like to move this location to another drive (i.e. D:\Users). I've already been able to customize the library locations, however there are ...
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What (specifically) happens when you have Win7 move default user folders?
In C:\Users\Myself, I right-click on Videos folder, select "location" tab, click "Move" button, and enter "D:\Videos" as new location; then confirm that this location is added to the Videos library (...
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Cmder PowerShell ignores profiles
I have some aliases set in Current User, Current Host and Current User, All Hosts.
Starting PowerShell (i.e. outside of Cmder) loads those profiles and so aliases are available.
Starting PowerShell ...
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Multiple Profiles in Chrome all Synced with one Google Account
I essentially want to have different environments set up such as a profile for general browsing with personal bookmarks, a work profile, and one profile for every clients websites I work on.
The ...
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Understand structure of Chrome User Profile data to Transfer to new PC/ OS & avoid Settings corruption Error?
Older answers are not working so I'm including things that may work in pieces.
Chrome Version: 44.0.2403.155 m - 44.0.2403.157 m
I used to be able to copy entire Chrome User Profile\Default from OS ...
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Name of user profile folder on Windows 10
I recently installed Windows 10 on my machine. I logged in with my Microsoft account, as usual. But I noticed something strange: instead of being named "Thomas" as in Windows 8, my profile folder (in ...
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Can't login with new local users in windows 10
I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I would like to create a new local admin and remove the administrator privileges from my main user. I created the new user but when I try to login I get ...
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Power Shell script to delete the User profiles from the windows server 2008 r2 to local machine(Windows 7)
I tried the following script on a Windows Server 2008 R2 to delete the User Profiles on a Windows 7 client machine.
PS C:\> get-content localcomputer-list.txt | get-userprofile | where {$_.LastUse ...
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Windows 7 Admin Corrupted, Cannot Run CMD as Admin, and Cannot Start in Safe Mode
Windows 7 Admin Corrupted, Cannot Run CMD as Admin, and Cannot Start in Safe Mode.
That about sums it up. Please help. Only one other standar profile on the machine. No apparent reason for the ...
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How do I set the user profile back to default location?
I changed entries in regedit a couple years ago when I installed a ssd to have my user account on a different drive. That drive is failing and even if I create a new account, the new account ends up ...
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Managing a your HOME profile files across multiple machines
What are the some solutions to manage synchronizing your $HOME profile files (.profile, .gdbrc, .vimrc, etc...) across several machines that are not necessarily the same distrib/OS (Debian, RedHat, ...
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What does `/profile` switch of Windows `runas` command exactly load?
The windows runas command has a /profile switch that per help message specifies that the user's profile should be loaded.
What does it exactly load? What is understood by user's profile in this case?...
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"Run as administrator" failing without message on Windows8.1, but "Run as different user" and consecutive "Run as administrator" working
Run as administrator now is broken the second time for me again after recreating user account locally.
Neither on the command line nor via the context menu I can run as programs as an administrator ...
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Shortcut to "User Profiles" manager under Windows 7
I'm searching, from a long time, to create a shortcut to the "User Profiles" manager.
How is it possible? Windows surely has a link behind the button so why could I not get it?
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User Profile Service (Error 1501) Cannot create temporary directory
I believe the problem stems from this issue in my event viewer:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service
Date: 5/30/2015 3:19:04 PM
Event ID: ...
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Separate setups of Sublime 3
Is it possible to have two or more different setups of Sublime Text 3?
What I mean by that is:
I would like to have one Sublime with my Python settings.
This includes the packages, theme, keyboard ...
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Roaming user profile not loading
I have a user on active directory who has a roaming profile set up. I have the address in the profiles tab like so:
However, when I try to login to a computer using the profile, I get a message "The ...
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