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PostmanPuzzled said:

Excuse me if I am being dumb but is this not the same process I have been completing ? ie
Win + R > regedit > HKEY......Current Versions > Profile List > Profile Image Path.
Double clicking on reg file to merge (merge with what ?) does not change the result though it changes the view slightly.
I have tried net user mjcx2 result is not known. It works for net user louis
I tried the Tutorial Find Sid of User - no sign of mjcx2
View accounts (will have to post and edit to find exact title of Tutorial).

It's just to verify to make sure the profile folder wasn't be used by any other account (SID) before you delete the profile folder.

PostmanPuzzled said:

Very late yesterday evening I remembered 2 things.

That I had written down some of the sid numbers and I found the sid number of mjcx2.

That in sorting out User Confusions with Try3 we found that mjcx2 user account was using mjcx2LAPTOP-QUIMIR90 profile folder * ie my user account name plus the name of the laptop as set up by my deceased husband.

A couple of days ago I noticed the system was throwing up 2 default users as mjcx2QUIMIR90. These have vanished or at least lost the QUIMIR90 tags. Whether this has any relevance I don`t know.

2 questions have occurred to me.

1) Does the fact that I am running 64bit windows 10 with 32 bit (system ?) mean I should be accessing registry differently ? I don`t understand how the 64bit and 32bit parts relate. The cmd commands I have been entering follow my User Account name with 32bit tag.

2) Can having the sid of mjcx2 help ? When I first approached windowstenforums with these confusions, my user accounts were mjcx2 (Microsoft Administrator Account) and G....C.... (Local Standard Account). Almost immediatelu I changed G C to Administrator For a while I ran G....C....without a password. I also have the sid of G....C...

Should I just leave it as it is ? Do you think this confusion is causing problems ? It was the fact that the registry had started recording mjcx2`s ProfileImagePath as louis that alarmed me. And that my son`s User Account which I have never logged into seems to be acquiring odds and ends of data via a link to mjcx2.

What a mess ! Maybe clean install is the only answer.

* history - relevance - not sure- My husband also set up my old crashed desktop with my first name M............as Computer Name so a lot of the backup files I imported from the crashed desktop reflected this. The Laptop Name when I took it over was named LAPTOP-QIGMIR90. My husband had a separate User Folder in Windows C: Users. I was importing folders and files from both sources which caused a lot, if not all, the confusion. mjcx2 didn`t exist until I created it. I had to give mjcx2 Administrative rights to do anything. At first I reduced my husband`s account to Standard and then, when I had transferred the data I thought I needed, I deleted it. I don`t suppose I went about doing either correctly.

It seems there may have been some confusion between the account name and the name of the profile folder being used by the account.

The SID is just the ID number an account is referenced with.

If the ProfileImagePath is correct for each accounts' SID, then you are good.

If you want to be sure, then a clean install is the best way to start fresh if you don't mind the hassle of backing up first and restoring afterwards.

nrhtx said:

Thank you so much. I was having problems deleting an old folder from my external hard drive. I was able to delete two folders.

HookeyLukey said:

Original article was FANTASTICALLY helpful to me as a non-technical computer user in helping me regain full access to a secondary internal HDD that I had not been able to access after a rookie blooper! So HUGE KUDOS!

RANOVAK said:

After a clean install of WIN10 could no longer access folders on data HDD. After much fiddling with MS permissions to no avail, this solution fixed everything. Many thanks!!

You're most welcome, and welcome. I'm glad it was able to help.