Instructions for Manually remapping User Profile Path
This document explains how to perform a registry fix. User may get a message “user profile has been corrupted” after login:
You will need to log on as local admin to completed this.
- Click Start
- In Run type in regedit and press Enter.
- In Registry Editor, go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- In the left pane, look for the folder name starting with S-1-5 (SID key) followed by a long number. Click each folder and locate ProfileImagePath from the right pane, double click to verify that this is the user account profile that has the error.
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- If you have two folders starting with S-1-5 followed by the same long numbers and one of them ends with .bak change the .bak folder to the normal one. To do this, follow the steps below:
Right click the folder with .bak and delete them.
- Right click on properties
- Click on Advance System Settings
- Under User profiles select Settings
- Here will display all profiles, you may see some Temp profiles, delete them.
Sample:
- Go to C:\Users here will display a list of user profiles (Note – this computer is a 256GB SSSD and was low on space).
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- I check the oldest date and delete them to free up space, if you find and TEMP folders delete them
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