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Under Account type , select Administrator , and then select OK. If you're using Windows 10, version and later, you can add security questions as you'll see in step 4 under Create a local user account. With answers to your security questions, you can reset your Windows 10 local account password.

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Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. In this article. This How To is in regards to accurately and efficiently re-create a user profile for the benefit of the End User, and saving yourself from further help requests in the hours following the profile rebuild. Yes, the manual method which I have explained in detail herein will require you to take 5 minutes out of your schedule to actively help the user. As it is very clear in the instruction, this is not an automated process.

My method not only requires you to take five minutes of your day to help someone, but it also requires a little empathy toward the end user, Not Apathy. Is it better to spend 5 minutes re-creating the user profile manually and with far, far more accuracy , or taking the time to set up file redirection which -in turn- will have the user calling the your helpdesk multiple times to find out where all of their data went? Where are my notes?

None of my settings are the same That was important stuff!! My desktop has been altered, what happened!? My task bar is empty, what happened? Sound familiar? What I am not familiar with is the term "spitting into Google" could you please explain your comment? By the way, if you are suggesting my How To is the result of a Google search, I can tell you that your profile picture is quite accurate. Also, What you are referring to sounds a whole lot like roaming profiles which in my opinion is a bad idea knowing how much data users keep on their profiles these days.

Excellent post! We do this a lot. Backing up and blowing away a users profile is also our first defense strategy when any type of infection or weirdness is encountered.

This is one more reason why a good way of customizing the default user profile is so very important! And no Microsoft, sysprep using the copyprofile parameter is not a good way!

With Windows 10, we will suffer yet another blow in the battle with Microsoft in finding a way to setup default profiles. This is our biggest concern with win And Microsft made a big booboo in my opinion to save the installed programs in the users folder You will also have to re-install Windows 10 apps.

Check this link out for the details. Excellent walkthrough. I have an issue where I did this and the user did not use google sync, so I need to go 'back' and retrieve his bookmarks for Chrome. Is this possible? I have the user. It's so easy to miss a step without a good list.

Screen shots of the desktop and the printers really helped.