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Win 10 using two user accounts simultaneously
My Acer laptop running Windows 7 recently died. I bought a Lenovo with Windows 10. I had a backup of the old computer's User folder and sub-folders and everything in them. I renamed the Users folder to Acer and copied that folder from external drive to base C drive on new computer.
It took a while, but when I went to look for it, I couldn't find it. But many things - including my Desktop - had changed. It turns out that, even though I had renamed the Users folder to Acer before copying to the new computer, Windows had decided to change it back to Users and ended up Merging it with the current Users folder. Since I am using the same Username, I got stuck with many of the settings from Windows 7.
I manually created an Acer folder and then moved everything to that, maintaining the same folder structure. Using the file dates as a guide, I also moved all the Acer files from existing folders (ie AppData, Local, Roaming, etc) under Users to the Acer folder.
But Windows followed them!
I guess Windows thinks it's smart, but I think this is dumb.
So now Windows is using settings from C:\Users\ME as well as C:\Acer\ME. I have cleaned things out and completely deleted the Acer folder, but it keeps coming back! Case in point: I had a Notepad shortcut in the Start Menu. It disappeared when I deleted the Acer folder. I recreated it and the Acer folder reappeared, with the Notepad shortcut. Why?!
How can I make Windows ignore this extra User account and use only the one in the Users folder?
Thanks!