Missing Registry Folder

You can mount the Software hive to check and add missing registry key.

Open the Command Prompt from Windows Recovery Environment and execute regedit.exe command.

From Registry editor select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key, click File from menu bar and select Load Hive... option. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Config folder and select Software hive to mount it give it a temporary name as Temp.

Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Temp\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon key and let us know Winlogon is there or not.

I was flying until my keyboard decided to produce # instead of \ when I needed to enter C:\Windows\System32\Config in the file name field of the "Load Hive" window.

Did you configured your keyboard language?

You can browse to Config folder.

No I did not set board language. Have the Registery Editor open. Can not find the "Temp" folder.

You have to load the Software hive and when promoted to name the loaded hive you give it a Temp name.

I think the Software Hive is loaded but I can not loacte it. I am really sorry but I am very out of my depth here..

The loaded Software hive is not the hive for Windows 10 Software hive it belongs to Windows Recovery Environment.

Have a look at below tutorial.

Load user registry hive in regedit

Will do, Thanks.

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I can not find the NTUSER.DAT file/folder. I think a reinstall is now favorite, I just hope I can reinstall my files from the WindowsImageBackup.