Running Windows 7/64 for ages, no troubles until a recent snafu. Somehow my user profile got corrupted and I could no longer boot into it. Started a new profile, backed up all files in the old one to maintain as many settings and changes as possible and move them over to the new profile. Done and the new profile is fine, kept all my bookmarks and add ons and tweaks and saved games and passwords and everything important, so other than a major annoyance no harm done. Went to delete the old profile the recommended way through the Advanced System Settings > User Profile method and ran into trouble. The same corrupt file that prevented me from booting into that profile couldn't be copied, but it also couldn't be deleted through the built-in method to delete profiles. Windows hung there. I rebooted and went back to Advanced System Settings > User Profile to start again and that profile was gone from the list shown there, but was not gone from the computer. A bunch of files and folders still remained in the C:\users\oldprofile folder, but the built-in function to delete it had marked it as nuked and couldn't see it anymore. I manually deleted the rest of the files and folders an it's gone entirely, but Windows boot-up doesn't agree. It's still asking me which profile to boot into on each start-up. Did a little research and found that problem is usually caused by a stray registry entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList which I was familiar with because I had been there trying some tricks to rescue the old profile without success. The shiny new profile is there, but the old one isn't and searching the registry uncovers no references to the old profile name.
Windows still thinks there are two valid user profiles on this machine and is making me choose between them, but I can't figure out where it's getting that information from. It's not under C:\users and it's not in the registry ProfileList. Any ideas where else Windows might be storing the information to tell it that there are two profiles if both of those locations are clear?
Windows still thinks there are two valid user profiles on this machine and is making me choose between them, but I can't figure out where it's getting that information from. It's not under C:\users and it's not in the registry ProfileList. Any ideas where else Windows might be storing the information to tell it that there are two profiles if both of those locations are clear?
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