Windows 10: Lost user ID after windows 10 upgrade

Hello all, first post here!

OK I did my windows 10 upgrade now on three machines. two of the machines were single user windows 8.1 prior to upgrade, but one was a Windows 7 Pro machine. I ran the upgrade, but lost my kids user id log on. I had a user id for them set up as a user with no admin rights and no password. I am not opposed to it having a password, now that the kids are teenagers, but I can't figure out how to recreate the user ID so that it is attached to all there saved files. Lots of schoolwork was saved on there ID. I can access it with my admin user account, but want to restore there id. Any ideas?

:)

 

Profile missing after windows 10 upgrade

My HP Pavillion desktop PC has 4 profiles before upgrade. Only
3 profiles show after upgrade to window 10. My profile is gone. I login with my son's admin user ID. I was
unable to find my ID (prorfile) in the "family & other users" . A user folder with my name in the C drive but appears empty. I also upgraded my Laptop with me as the only user and it work okey. I have a MS account "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***". I did not backup
my folder before the upgrade. Did I lost all my doc, photo, movie & etc.? How can I recover them? Please help!!!!!!!!!

 

Lost profile after windows 10 upgrade

I lost profile after windows 10 upgrade. The folder and files are still there under "users." how do I reinstall profile?

[Original title: Lost profile after Windows 10 upgrade]

[Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Files, folders, & storage / PC]

 

Does the kids account still appear under C:\Users? If yes try this.

1. Rename the kids account to something else temporarily.
2. Create a new limited access kids account using the old name, with or with out a password.
3. Login as the kids account.
4. Logout from the kids account.
5. Rename the new kids account under C:\Users to something else then rename the old account to the new account.

See if you can login as the kids account now and is all the data there?

 

Good advice! ^^^^^^^ Just to clarify, in step 1. Ztruker means to rename the kid's account folder under C: \Users to something else temporarily.

 

If you can access the files from your account, simply create a new limited account without password and then login to that so the Documents etc folders are created. Now login back to your admin account and copy all their old files to the respective folder of the new account. This is C:\users\username\Documents for the Documents folder and so on where username is the name of the new account.