For local profile resets, most admins will go ahead and delete various folders in
C:\Documents & Settings\<username> (2K/XP)
or
C:\Users\<username> (Vista & above)
but that's not all that needs to be done...
open the registry and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
There you'll see a list of folders with SID's for names, some long and some short. You need to delete the long named ones (but check each, in case it's essential to your specific environment)
Don't delete the short named entries, or the account you are logged in with.
Then go to the preceding key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileGuid
check each guid's SidString isn't related (equal) to any of the remaining SIDs from ProfileList. Delete any that don't match and leave those that have a matching entry in ProfileList
C:\Documents & Settings\<username> (2K/XP)
or
C:\Users\<username> (Vista & above)
but that's not all that needs to be done...
open the registry and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
There you'll see a list of folders with SID's for names, some long and some short. You need to delete the long named ones (but check each, in case it's essential to your specific environment)
Don't delete the short named entries, or the account you are logged in with.
Then go to the preceding key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileGuid
check each guid's SidString isn't related (equal) to any of the remaining SIDs from ProfileList. Delete any that don't match and leave those that have a matching entry in ProfileList
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