[dayglored]

Heads up, in case your Windows 10 machine is showing signs of user profile damage...

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Update breaks user profiles... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Army Air Corps]

What the...?!

[trebb]

Got the updates on my PC and laptop w/o any issues...

[The_Media_never_lie]

So, now I know what happened.....

[edwinland]

happened to me last week. still can’t use the computer at all.

[CatOwner]

Probably Microsoft’s way of resetting users who have limited Microsoft’s reach by turning off most of their invasive “features”.

[bitt]

p

[Mariner]

I have been auto-updating for at least 10 years and never had a single problem.

Three different machines, all purchased new and all updating on the MS schedule.

All Brand name hardware.

I’m baffled as to why people have trouble with these updates. They are obviously doing something different than me.

A PC guy once told me that folks who have trouble are those who install applications that re-write register settings. But I don’t know if that’s true or if it’s that simple.

[Bullish]

Mine’s working fine with the new updates.

[Brian Griffin]

My machine runs OK, now.

I hope Bill Gates’ new yacht needs frequent software updates.

[Revel]

I tried updating to 1909 and there was a profile error on the first boot. Stuck right there. Had to force a reboot. Then almost nothing remained of installed programs. Even folders and files were wiped from the desktop. But the user profile had the same name. The desktop was almost like a brand new one(Even the wall paper was gone). Firefox profile was completely wiped. No bookmarks or anything. Email program wiped of accounts and data.

I had to uninstall it and go back. Thank God everything returned to normal.

[hsmomx3]

I updated this week and later in the day, I shut my computer down and restarted later. When I entered my password, the main page did not display any of my programs, etc. Talk about stressing out! Had to restart four times in order for everything to show up and ever since then have had no issues.

[1Old Pro]

Windows 10 has crashed computers and cost me data loss and $$ to reimage them and reinstall.

[chulaivn66]

Your posts and the ensuing comments on FR and The Register provide my daily entertainment. Occasionally I learn something of value. Continue posting.

[upchuck]

Grateful Win 7 user forever here. Whew!

[minnesota_bound]

Updated about 2 months ago and this happened to one of my Windows 10 laptops. It now has version 1909

Windows 10 bad update
I have Windows 10 installed on a laptop and had decided to "upgrade" from version 1807 to the latest Windows 10 version 1909. It was released on November 12, 2019.

Big mistake as the upgrade did not go well. I had my 'my name' profile folder but also ended up with a TEMP, TEMP.WINDOWS10, TEMP.WINDOWS10.000, TEMP.WINDOWS10.000.001 profile folders.

In the registry it show the user profile as: C:\Users\TEMP.WINDOWS10.000.001

I could not log into Windows.

Error message:
The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded

I logged in as the admin. If you do not have a Administrator option next to your own profile then do the following as it comes in handy to troubleshoot problems like this: Next to the Start button, click on the search icon (magnifying icon, type in cmd and then right-click on Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator. Copy this and press the Enter key. Works in Windows 7 and 10.

net user administrator /active:yes

After a few restarts I was able to log in under my profile and found 4 TEMP folders.

The fix was messy so I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10. I formatted the drive and installed.

Example of problem at EaseUS TODO Backup

I have Windows 7 installed on my desktop computer and will stay with Windows 7......!

[MEG33]

Updated/ No problems here.

[Starcitizen]

Microsoft pretty much hires H1B Indian trash exclusively. Think about it. Shit coders, shit products.

[daniel1212]

So i did this (not the best practice for security, but