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So I had a backup and when restored it to my computer the User folder didn't actually change to use the backed-up folder, so now I have an owner
folder (which is pretty much empty) and a my_username
folder below C:\Users
. How can I make my account use the my_username
folder as the user folder?
EDIT: I've tried creating a new account and then changing the name of my old folder to the name of the new account, but somehow Windows still knows it's not the 'real' user folder and creates a TEMP folder. In which registry is this configured?
ProfileImagePath is the key. – Thraka – 2012-11-21T19:20:05.917
When restarted it created a new /Users/TEMP folder and is using it as the user folder. Any idea whats going on? – sazpaz – 2012-11-23T09:51:55.643
You need to change owner and permissions of that old profile folder. – None – 2012-11-23T13:52:22.133
Did that and when re-logged, Windows just replaced that folder with an empty User folder. Thankfuly I still have everything backed. Any more ideas how to fix this? – sazpaz – 2012-11-23T21:26:14.223
Does your user account belong to local administrators group? When I was doing that in the past with 30+ computers (Windows XP/Vista/7) all of the users were in local administrators group... Try that... – None – 2012-11-24T15:14:19.360