A client has been having some issues with their laptop, installers have been complaining that their ‘My Documents’ folder (redirected to H:\) doesn’t exist. After pushing and poking some settings I decided the quickest and easiest thing to do would be to recreate their user profile.
Reboot the system and login as another use (preferably Administrator) then browse to C:\Users and rename the user’s folder.
Normally when the user logs in next Windows will create a profile automatically, however under Windows 7 it decided to create a temporary profile.
It turns out Windows 7 stores the path that a user should be using for their profile under the following registry folder;-
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Look through the various folders listed until you find the one with your pesky profile, delete it and then login as normal.
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