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Administrator account tied to old Windows installation
Hey everyone, just joined TenForums. Hope I can get this sorted.
Recently, I bought myself a secondhand computer. It had Windows 10 (version 19044) on the (C:) drive and a partition (E:) and an account set up already, which was an admin account. I thought at first it was strange that while I was using it it would automatically launch everything as an admin - it also had the weird quirks of the Microsoft Store being unavailable no matter what I did to restore it as well as the system tray being hidden among other problems. I carried on using the PC like normal despite this though, installing programs and games and using it as my workhorse. In retrospect, this was a pretty dumb move as I should've just reinstalled Windows right then and there.
Anyways, I recently got an SSD for my computer and installed an unactivated version of Windows (version 19044 still) on a completely blank drive there via the media creation tool on Microsoft's website as an ISO. Everything got set up and ready, I went through the whole little set up thing Windows makes you go through, i.e signing in to your Microsoft account and whatnot. Lo and behold, I found that while I was going through File Explorer, everything was gone. Namely, the things associated with a user profile like the Downloads, Documents, Pictures folders .etc. I was expecting that when I made the account my experience would continue on like normal, just on a faster system now since I got the SSD. And so, I tried to fix it by following a guide that was posted here by Brink, by going into RegEdit and setting some parameter that had the word "Image" in it to the user profile you wanted. I don't think that worked as nothing happened. I also tried setting the C drive's security to Everyone in hopes of fixing it as I was prompted that I don't have access to the Downloads within the Administrator's folder in Users. I'm pretty clueless right now, I also don't know if the original account I had before I got the SSD was the built-in admin or the hidden admin, but my bets are on my guess that its the built-in admin one. I also can't reach the old account without using the old version of Windows instead of the one I installed on my SSD.
Any advice? Thanks