Deleting a user profile from Windows 10 can be useful for cleaning up unused accounts or blocking their access. Here's how.

Many a time, system admins need to create a pre-configured user account that works with fixed settings. These profiles are called Mandatory User Profiles (one of many Unique profiles) in Windows. In ...

During an attempt to sign in, if Windows displays the Please wait for the User Profile Service message for a long time, say 5 minutes, then that post will help you ...

One thing I always hated to deal with as a Windows Administrator is the user profiles. Roaming profile dealt with many of the issues, except for how long it took to load that profile for users who ...

How to recover data from a corrupt Windows user profile Your email has been sent If corruption occurs to a Windows user's profile, data may be retrievable using the method listed below. Windows user ...

I got an SSD a few years ago and reinstalled windows. I got this idea, which I thought was brilliant at the time, of putting the user directories on another drive to save space on the SDD. I have ...

User profiles on Windows computers can be complex structures that have a lot of folders in them, especially if you install applications that create their own profile folders. For example, if you ...

Reports are coming in that the Windows 10 KB4532693 cumulative update is loading an incorrect user profile and causing the user's desktop and Start Menu to be reset to default. On February 11th, ...

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A free and unofficial patch is now available for a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows User Profile Service that lets attackers gain SYSTEM privileges under certain ...