Question Automatic restart damages user profile

[ferdinands]

Hi.

Well, this took me by surprise.

I was getting ready to go to sleep, I usually leave the PC in sleep (lol...). I lie down... the computer turns on by itself, it takes a while to load, I sit down to see what happens and puff... I can't access my user profile, the only one I have. The system starts a predetermined one with my email and password, but everything is gone.

I was looking in Regedit (User\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList) and I can't find my profile.

The damaged profile has the files not on local drive C, but on drive D. I can access them. Is there a way to recover the previous profile configuration by replacing the path or something?

I just have to thank you.

 

[Colif]

You could try running system restore. It should return registry back to how it was on the date of the restore date - if you have one

Note: might want to run this from advanced startup as if you run in the strange user, it might only see files associated with it.
note (below for win 11, if you on win 10 the menus are different)
Go to settings/system/recovery
next to Advanced startup, click restart now

this will load you into a blue menu at startup
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose system restore and pick a recent date if there is one. Further you go back, more changes to your system it won't know about.

startup repair on same menu might help too.

 

[ferdinands]

You could try running system restore. It should return registry back to how it was on the date of the restore date - if you have one

Note: might want to run this from advanced startup as if you run in the strange user, it might only see files associated with it.
note (below for win 11, if you on win 10 the menus are different)
Go to settings/system/recovery
next to Advanced startup, click restart now

this will load you into a blue menu at startup
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose system restore and pick a recent date if there is one. Further you go back, more changes to your system it won't know about.

startup repair on same menu might help too.

Thanks for answering.

Well, I've tried it and it doesn't work.
It returned me to the user that was created after the failure.

But I'm seeing something, in Regedit the User path is different from how it appears when Windows starts.

For example, the Profilepatch has the path C:\Users\hans when in the login it is a more compound name.

Although, as I pointed out, it has my email linked.

Could it be restored if I change the path to the users folder that exists on local disk D, which is my original (and only) user?

 

[ferdinands]

Problem solved.
Only the BIOS boot had been reversed...

 

[Colif]

Problem solved.
Only the BIOS boot had been reversed...

what did you change?

User profiles have been known to break, you might want to make a new user profile and make it admin just in case this happens again
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au...-windows-20de74e0-ac7f-3502-a866-32915af2a34d

I don't use netplwiz as I have had a user break and put me in that guest user mode before. Easier to just enter PIN at startup.