Windows 10: Corrupted Default User

Hi!


Recently I had to reinstall my Win10 because probably some faulty drivers caused is to crash very often. After the istallation of the OS completed, I tried to log in as the default Admin user, but this user doesn't seem to exist at all. Now I'm trying to reset the OS, but that requires the admin's password and Windows says that it cannot find any admin user files and I should log in first and maybe create an admin user. Which, of course is impossible.


That's all I know, thanks for the help in advance.

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New Account/User Issues

Hi,

When you create a new user account, Windows uses the Default user profile as a template to construct the files for the newly created user account. You might be experiencing issues creating new accounts due to a corrupt Default profile. To
resolve the issue, we suggest reinstating the Default folder in the
Users directory by following these steps:

• Log in as an administrator.
• Open the C:\Users folder using Windows Explorer.
• Rename the Default user profile folder to Default.OLD.
• Download a zip of C:\Users\Default from a Windows 10 installation that doesn't have this problem.
  
• Unzip the non-corrupt Default profile into C:\Users.
• Try logging in to the new user account and check if the problem is resolved.

Let us know how it turns out.

 

Current active users that are friends

The other reason I suggested this is that users can add characters to their username that are not alphanumeric (e.g. user*). This confuses things somewhat when looking at the list.

 

Programs not working


In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.