Why did Windows 10 rename my profile folder from "ericlaw" to "ericlaw.000" and how do I fix it?
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Replying to @mynetx
Either. The .000 suffixed value is sprinkled across dozens or hundreds of registry keys.
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Replying to @ericlaw
Well, that’s easy – create a 2nd admin, load the other user’s hive, replace them all, then unload the hive again?
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Rather than the notepad approach, can't you have regedit literally load the other user's hive? Been a few years since I've needed to even try that. You could also be lazy and just make a hard link for the .000 folder so it's effectively an alias of the non-suffixed folder (yuk)
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The loading isn't the problem, the lack of Search/Replace in regedit is. I ended up doing the mklink thing in lieu of reinstalling Windows.
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Replying to @ericlaw @IanYates82
Been tinkering with Windows Insider builds? Or any idea how Windows decided to suffix the folder name …?
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