User account disappeared

Thanks so much! I had done the same thing somehow, my user account and most of my desktop icons disappeared. I was following instructions to run scanpst and couldn't locate my outlook.pst file (i guess it was hidden?). Your instructions here fixed it - everything reappeared - and let me run the scanpst on the file in appdata. Thanks!

Thanks a lot! I had the exact same problem and this solution worked. Thanks! Amazing that a 3 year old post still can be useful.