Posted on 11/09/2015 9:00:17 AM PST by Boowhoknew
Log in with an administrative account. Navigate to c:\users. Find your corrupted profile folder(s) within. Copy all of your documents from the corrupted profile(s) to a separate location(s). Delete the account(s) with the corrupted profile(s). Restart the machine. Re-Create the corrupted account(s). In so doing, you’ll create a new profile from the default user profile. Log off. Log in as the re-created account(s). When the new profile(s) look good, bring the data back into the respective profile(s) from the separate location. For browsing safety, do NOT grant administrative access to the new user profiles - make them users only. Keep your administrator account separate from browsing and only use it for machine configuration changes, software installs, etc.. Malwares and viruses will be reduced dramatically if they are encountered by an account that does NOT have administrative access to the machine.
Dude. NEVER directly cut power to a modern PC. The only save way to shut them down is the click the shut down command in the windows menu. Just yanking power will damage things ALMSOT EVERY TIME! All sorts of background stuff is going on that should not be interrupted. PCs power themselves off in their own sweet time if you just click the shutdown command.
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