Aug 3, 2016 · This is for removing the file for a user who has been deleted/deactivated/etc. and for whom you want to delete the profile manually. First, search in the registry for the profile entry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ In data for one of the keys will be the user that you removed. Delete the entire key. Second, reboot.

2 - Roaming profiles. This requires being joined to a domain. You would first set a user profile path for your account on the domain server. Then on the desktop use the profile copy tool in Control Panel > System > User Profiles. There's a "Copy To" button there. This copy command will copy the entire profile and properly capture the registry ...

Jun 25, 2020 · Why is there a disclaimer about messing up the registry when the NTUSER.DAT file is a user hive, not a system hive, and, specific to the author's question, is a backup, so any changes made to it wouldn't affect anything? –

Windows NT has been designed from start to be a multi-user operating system. You can have two, three, twenty users logged into the same WinNT system. You can have two, three, twenty users logged into the same WinNT system.

Mar 7, 2016 · It contains the entire contents of the HKEY_LOCAL_USER branch of the Registry, which is the user's personalised settings for much of the installed software, including Windows itself. When the user logs on, NTUSER.DAT is merged with the computer's registry, and becomes the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch of the registry tree.

Mar 22, 2017 · The tokens on the right side of the slash refer to individual internal service "users" of the OS. For example, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM handles system services, NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE does local services, NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE is network services, and so on. More background can be found in this thread and on various locations of MSDN. A ...

Jul 11, 2012 · In investigating the issue, I found that ntuser.pol (the file that holds the group policy information for a user) still reflected the correct settings, but it's corresponding registry hive file ntuser.dat did not. I believe the ntuser.dat.log1 and ntuser.dat.log2 files may contain information on what process changed ntuser.dat and when.

May 24, 2018 · I have read a few other answers here. All I'd like to know is whether there's a way to hid the NTUSER.dat file while still viewing other hidden files in my %USERPROFILE% directory.

Contrary to common intuition, the ntuser.dat file in LocalSystem's user profile folder (\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile) is not the source of HKEY_CURRENT_USER for applications running as SYSTEM. As far as I can tell, it's not actually used for anything, and it contains very little information.

Apr 19, 2016 · When a user logs into a computer, an access token is generated that contains user and group SIDs and user privilege level. When a user requests access to a resource, the access token is checked against the ACL to permit or deny particular action on a particular object. The SID of NT-AUTHORITY\SYSTEM can be added