Create second administrative user account.

In account 2 copy out the NTUSER.DAT from account 1 to a safe place in account 2. (in C/ Users/second user/puthere/)

There were also ...

Wrong solution.

Ok, so I couldn't get the answer from anybody on the forum about whether a second hardrive should have a user assigned as owner or if it should be owned by SYSTEM. ... So I made an administrative...

icacls D:\* /T /L /Q /C /RESET
Results

at first glance the 8700 files reason given: "The system can not find the path specified".

This I figured, because drive layers are peeling. I thought...

You know what would be nice? A system which you could click the checkmarks it gives you, and; it wouldn't break.
It would continue operating like an... I don't know, an operating.... system.

Denis, have you seen how billions of people spend year, after year, of man-hours, trying to Shift+select a group of files organized by any standard sorting order (name, date, etc)(; and the sorting...

What is that L for symbolic links doing there? Should I do that?

Oooohh! "[/setowner <username> [/t] [/l] [/q]][/C] Changes the owner of all matching files to the specified user."

Is the...

I can access everything on the drive and do all the normal stuff such as creating files and editing them. It's more of an aesthetic change in terms of impact at this point. Perhaps some detail will...

Created a new user.
Gave it administrative permissions.
Saw the same success message "Command completed successfully" each time.

Look at it by another account
389139

That's not net...

I don't have the hard drive space for such an unthinkable thing; and it was never in a good state.

The whole drive got the permission change. I'm about to try a new user account, for permissions....

You know that problem? It's back! or... maybe I missed something when I thought it was fixed.
#1. The Music library is still the Music library, that's awesome!
#2. The registry edits we made ARE...

Hey, so...

Permissions for my hard drive had everything checked as allowed (except "Full control", and "special permissions"; the latter I don't have access to change anyway), so; I clicked Full...

The fix is:

Right click a missing icon pin > More> Open file location

Here in Start Menu > Programs the shortcuts do display correctly, but we're going to change them anyway!
Right Click the...

Okay! Done and done. That worked great!
Changing those two registry entries and a restart got my Two Word user name folder to reappear in the Users folder. ✓
The Music folder is back to thinking...

I'm trying to follow the instructions in Bree's final link. We are on right track that's clear.
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My question is about step 7

Which, in my case, would be My Music which I should change to...

Thank you for your suggestion, unfortunately; I do in deed want to untangle this issue without reinstalling windows.

I've made a great effort to customize my install and believe that "fixed"...

I was messing with my user directory a long time ago, trying to reassign libraries to my second hard drive D:/. I don't remember if I used the command line or some library customization program...