The old account has reappeared at sign in. It is the one loaded and in the middle of the screen. The new account is also there, in the lower left corner, and I have been able to sign in through...

Try this:
At Control Panel/Devices and Printers, right click and remove any unsuccessful instances of your printer. Reboot.
Go to "add printer." Continue to blank field and "... isn't listed"...

I have this same situation and have worked through all of these steps with no success.

I have 2 printers connected to my Windows 7 computer. The Windows 7 computer does appear in the left pane of...

Everything is working right. Many thanks, again. After a couple days of the new account accessing all of my data, running all of my programs, and selectable at login, I deleted the old account user...

I did follow the steps in the first post tutorial, including backing up and whoami. While in temporary account, the system was very unstable and the cursor would roll and I would get some black SOD....

Thanks for this advice. I did copy everything and eventually created a new account. The computer was continually creating new temporary accounts. I copied everything onto an external hard drive...

When logged in to the old account as administrator, I can click to change another account and make the new account an administrator. It does not ask to assign a password. When I "switch user" and...

Yes.

The old account shows "Local Account, Administrator, Password Protected."
The new account shows only "Local Account."

I am using Classic Shell. I don't have the metro start menu. From...

When I have logged in to the new account, if I go to Windows Settings/Accounts/Your Info, it shows only the new account, as Local Account. (When changing it to administrator did not appear to work,...

I was able to get back on the road by creating the new account. Kudos for helping me and all the others on this.

But now at startup it still takes me directly to the old temporary profile, which...

I don't think it was on 1709 last week. The last restore point was for a critical update December 19, 2018-KB4483234

When I find my files they are in a regular C:// path. I tried chkdsk and...

Win 10 Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.472).

Something happened to my other computer. This morning my Dell laptop took 15 mins to boot and the desktop is completely changed. I keep a lot of...