Here is my scenario. Yesterday, when I turn on my computer I got this 'We can't sign into your account' messageLogged in with temporary account, I still can open my files which located in 'C:UsersAdminDesktop'. Pengertian sistem informasi.
I followed but no luck. So I try to play around with regedit by refering those stated in solution above.I remember I went to HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList and I change the ProfileImagePath in S-1-5-91642-1000 from 'C:UsersTemp' to 'C:UsersAdmin'. Then the nightmare begin. I cannot see all my files and folder anymore. When I go to 'C:Users' there is no folder 'Admin' anymore.I've tried to set back everything that i've changed to its original values but nothing good happen.
I know that my biggest mistake is I didn't make a backup of it while I still can access them. But now that things already happened, Is there any way I can retrive it back?
Hey all,I do some IT work on the side for a local nonprofit.Yesterday, I got a call from one of the employees stating that her user account had disappeared. They did a restart of the computer (Windows 10) and when it came back up, only the administrator account remained.Yesterday evening I stopped in and sure enough, her local account was 100% gone.
So, I created a new local account for her and went on my merry way. The c:users path was still there of course, so I managed to transfer her data over to the new account.Here's where the details get a little. Coincidentally, she said there was a guy at their office around the same time from their security company who was going to install some software, got on her computer and needed to map a network drive to their software server. Couldn't figure out why he couldn't map it, so he rebooted the computer, and when he did, the account, ta-da!
Was gone.Never, ever in my IT career have I seen a user account 'magically disappear' from a computer. My guess is that this guy deleted the account by accident, then hightailed it out of there once he realized he big time F'd up. Then again - how do you possibly delete the account that was currently logged in.? He was logged in under her account the entire time so I'm not so sure about that.
Have you ever seen anything wonky like this on Windows 10? I've seen a handful of issues where people can't sign in to their MS accounts on Windows 10, but nothing like a local account just disappearing. I've scoured Google and I can't find a single thing. I think I'm confused as they are. Hi Jack,I ran into this same problem some years ago.
The reason why it appears intermittent should because of the random 90 minute offset of the GPO refresh. There is a Restricted Group Policy that I used. Works well with one problem.
Below is one of the best explanations I have seen for this.Phase1'.securing the local Administrators group is to ensure that the user no longer has membership in the group'Phase 2'.securing the local Administrators group is to ensure that the Domain Admins global group and the local Administrator account are both added to the local Administrators group in every desktop.' 'Many have attempted this by using the Restricted Groups policy that has been in Windows Active Directory Group Policy from the onset. The problem with this solution is that the Restricted Groups policy is a “ delete and replace” policy, not an “append” policy. Thus, when you configure a policy to perform this task, you will wipe out the contents of the local Administrators group, replacing it with only these new accounts.' - fromThis could be the source of your problem as it was mine because I originally thought it would append accounts. After going through what you went through and a bit of troubleshooting, I knew it was the culprit.This article also explains the use of the Local Users and Groups policy which gives you more flexibility than the Restricted Groups policy. Should solve both phases in one place.Hopefully this info will shed some light on your situation and give you the desired results.
Please do let us know. I have seen user accounts getting botched up in Windows 7 but since we are in a Domain it just creates a new local profile. When it does this, you will see 2 profiles in the users folder (typically 1 named and another one named.). Since we are giving the technician the benefit of the doubt, it is very possible that the software he was installing somehow corrupted the user profile. This would explain how the files still exist in the users folder when the account is gone. Does this nonprofit have a domain? Oddly enough I had something similar just yesterday.
Domain users had been added to the computer as local admins, as is our standard. We shipped the machine out to one of our satellite offices that is not on our MPLS, so they were trying to get logged in with the VPN before login. There's a captive portal on their internet, though, so I had to give the guy the password to the local admin account so he could connect to WiFi (the guy is a member of IT staff, not just a random user, before anyone asks). We jump on a screen share and the domain users don't even show up in the list of users whose accounts had been added to the domain. But as soon as we connected the VPN, they appeared right where I had put them before I shipped the machine out.All of that to say, if there's a domain in play, ensure the machine is on the right network to communicate back to the DC. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself but apparently this has the potential to cause an account to disappear.
Carl Holzhauer wrote:Yes, I've had that happen about 5 times here. But, it's always been related to an unclean shutdown; half the times it was tied to a power loss, the other times it was tied to a user resetting their computer when it was doing updates.I could see the files with something like 'GetDataBackForNTFS' but when I restored them, they were empty.The users in question did not have local admin rights.Carl, was it always the logged in account that disappeared after the unclean shutdown? Or a random account? Un4givn85 wrote:Was the user a local admin?It is, for some stupid reason, possible to delete the currently logged in account via Computer Management.Then once the account is logged off or the computer restarted, the account is gone.Exactly this - I've seen it as well.As another possible avenue, any chance he was having trouble while logged in via her account and either 'broke' something (or simply thought he did anyway) and did the 'ol 'System recovery but keep my files' option? If he went back to a date pre-her account setup it would've still kept the files local for you to copy to her rebuilt login that you mentioned.(I admit freely I'm reaching on the 2nd possibility, but MS, Windows - and especially W10, has plenty of weird shit happen on occasion that skirts out over the line of 'yeah, that shouldn't've happened' with very little info as to why or HOW it happened. Just a thought though.). On a domain computer, I have seen Windows 10 'loose' track of a domain user login account and setup a temporary profile and give the warning that it is temporary.
Profile Folder User Missing Windows 10
All I had to do was log off and then back on and Windows 10 'found' the account again.This has happened several times on different computers and accounts. If the C:users%username% folder was still in tact, could this have been what happened?If someone deleted the user profile in the Advance System Settings, usually it deletes the user folder too. Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the great replies!Sorry, I should have mentioned to start off, this isn't a domain environment. All of the users log on locally.The standard config for these computers is: I create a local administrator account and also create an account for the user w/administrator rights.And yes, just to clarify, that user account was totally gone.
It wasn't under user accounts under control panel, no temp account, no nothing. The administrator account I deployed as part of the image was the only one left.
Luckily she didn't have much of anything on the desktop so I just transferred it over from her original user folder (which still existed) and the rest she had on her data drive.When I stop by over the weekend, I'll check to see if anything strange looks like it went down such as a system restore.Edited Mar 29, 2018 at 13:30 UTC.