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LKBEN10885: Windows 7 - A user profil is created only temporary and not saved

Symptom

Problems with your windows profiles.

Cause

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Solution

This will happed, if you manuel delete a user account

To do:

  1. Open the registry (regedit.exe) 
  2. Navigate to "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\
  3. Search the affected profile (for example:S-1-5-21-2057539395-2660279759-2660884317-1355)
    => You can see it under the value: "ProfileImagePath"
  4. Delete the whole key

Thats all

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 05-10-2020