Many a time, system admins need to create a pre-configured user account that works with fixed settings. These profiles are called Mandatory User Profiles (one of many Unique profiles) in Windows. In ...

During an attempt to sign in, if Windows displays the Please wait for the User Profile Service message for a long time, say 5 minutes, then that post will help you ...

I got an SSD a few years ago and reinstalled windows. I got this idea, which I thought was brilliant at the time, of putting the user directories on another drive to save space on the SDD. I have ...

Learn how moving your Windows User folder to an SSD can boost performance, enhance security, and free up space on your ...

How to recover data from a corrupt Windows user profile Your email has been sent If corruption occurs to a Windows user's profile, data may be retrievable using the method listed below. Windows user ...

If you using a Roaming User Profile and customize your Windows 10 Start Menu, any changes will be reset after upgrading to a newer version of Windows 10. Windows creates a profile for every user, ...

When you add a new user account, during initial setup or afterward, Windows 10 creates a user profile folder in C:\Users, with your username (or a variation) as the name of the profile folder. It then ...

Reports are coming in that the Windows 10 KB4532693 cumulative update is loading an incorrect user profile and causing the user's desktop and Start Menu to be reset to default. On February 11th, ...

Windows NT stores local profiles for all users who log on to that machine. But if you have several different users logging on to the same machine, these profiles can begin to take up a lot of ...

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