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How do I restore "deleted" user profile (can find the file in Users)
Ok - first off - please no spankings!! I stepped on my wilie and I know it! And worse - I knew better...
This is about a fundamentally ok and up-to-date Windows 7 Ultimate system with plenty of resources and no virus or malware problems. Just a user prob...
I had (and still do) an 86 GIG user profile (like I said - no spankings!!). I've been making attempts to "fix" this and resize to something reasonable for some time now. Today I (foolishly) thought System Restore would cover me, set a restore point, and ran a script to 'clean up' the profile. Well - it sure did - now every thing is "new".... And of course the system restore fails with the dreaded 0x0800700xx error code. Have tried all the restore-fixes and nothing works. Now I don't even have the old restore files!
I'd like to get back to the old humongous profile - and IT STILL IS THERE! However it doesn't show up in "Local Users and Groups".
One repair I tried (which only sorta worked) was to log in as an Admin, and copy all the files in "AVR" (the lost one) to the new one "AVR.GBXBOX". I took several hours to copy all the files over (no spanking!!) and when I restarted, the "AVR.GFXBOX" is still the current user but only behaves somewhat like the original. But still isn't quite right: Outlook thinks it hasn't run and I had 6 email accounts I rather not have to rebuild. And other similar probs...
So with all that sad whining - my big question is:
How can I make the old user profile titled "AVR" become an active and recognized profile? Would this need to be some sort of registry edit? It sets in a User directory, but will not be listed an any system utility...
Once I get this repaired I'll do a proper backup and restore disk... (Macrium) - but would sure like to get back to my old, nasty bloated user profile. And - after all that - the new user (with a smallish profile) really doesn't boot any faster!
Just hoping somebody may have been thru such a debacle and have found a way to re-activate that old user.