Never had that issue using Nirosoft's SearchMyFiles, but I have had it doing straight deletes.@Try3
Well, it's a good thing I made a backup. Last night comp rebooted a few times, no problem.
Today though, it got stuck on the Welcome screen, where the password is entered. It took forever for the password box to appear.
Before I even tried that, I just restored from the backup I had made.
So now they're all back, BUT the computer boots... no problem.
Ghot,
If you don't already have a spare, local, password-protected Admin user account I suggest you make one now and write its password down somewhere secure yet accessible.
- All those files indicate a series of past problems writing the amended user profile whilst closing the user profile down before logging off.
- The problem logging in indicates a user profile problem.
- All we cannot know is whether your fiddling with those files caused the login problem or whether that login problem was going to happen eventually anyway.
Writing down user account passwords is as effective as & is a lot cheaper than making 'Password reset disks' [which are only for local accounts anyway]. I always write user account passwords down on a strip of paper that I keep inside one of those dog nametag cylinder things attached to my main keyring -Here, purely as an example, is a [UK] link for ID tags https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pet-Barrel-.../dp/B00DEB1JVQ There are lots of available choices but I bought ones that, like these, have a slot in the bottom for me to swing off so I can be confident they won't come apart accidentally while I'm out & about.
All the best,
Denis
Thanks bro, but I'm not worried about it.
I have good backups, I always have the option of just re-installing Windows.
I think in my case, all those files represent all the tweaks I've done. After deleting all them, Windows would have probably worked things out, but looking back it may have taken a while.
I really tweaked Windows 10... a LOT!
I also have copies of all my installed programs on a different drive, and reg files and text files for all my tweaks.
Like I said in another topic, Windows 10 is the best video game I've played in a long time.
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I have the feeling it's just the sheer number of tweaks. When I got to the Welcome screen and things seemed to stall, it may have just been all those files I deleted, being written to the main NTUSER.DAT file.
Anyway, don't you guys worry about it, cause I'm not.
My current Windows 10 x64 20H2 19042 was started as a clean install of Windows 10 in March of 2019 and the total size of all the NTUser.Data files currently is 12MB and I have never deleted any, for what its worth.
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