We all know where the user profiles are stored, but did you also know….Microsoft uses a reference pointer of the profile in the registry? That’s right.
If you happen to delete the C:\Users\UserProfile, but forget to remove the reg key, welcome to a second profile being generated, which causes problems in profile consistency across your network. You don’t want something that looks like Username.DomainName, or Username.Temp.
So, from another account (I use administrator), delete the reg key first
Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Value: Specific User Profile
* it’s always good practice to first back up the registry before making modifications
And then delete the user profile
C:\Users\UserProfile
* or, a safer route, just rename profile to C:\Users\Username.old
Tag: ProfileList, Delete User Profile