Windows 10: Temporary user .000 not erased during 1909 Windows 10 update

On one of my computers I installed several times the 1909 update with always the same result. The user "user.000" stays with all the data files attached. And most of my programs don't work anymore. Each time I went back to the former version and everything goes well again. I saw plenty of adivice on the subject but all of them rather complicated from my point of view. Microsoft could give an working answer to that. To make the matter a little more complicated, 1909 update worked fine on my two other computers ...

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User.000 issue after updating to 1909

I'm one of the many people suffering from issues with user profiles after applying Update 1909 to Windows 10. I've read all the threads I can find on the topic here and have followed the suggestions, all to no avail. Any other thoughts are appreciated.

After applying Update 1909, the ProfileImagePath was changed to c:\users\User.000
One file that was always in use and couldn't be removed was left in c:\users\User (can't recall or find the exact file now), so I could never rename or remove the c:\user\User directory.

I followed the multiple suggestions from Brink and others:

• Rebooted at least 6 times
• Enabled hidden Administrator
• Booted into Safe Mode
• Changed ProfileImagePath
• Tried to rename c:\users\User but couldn't because a file was still in use
• Copied all data from c:\users\User.000 into c:\users\User
• Rebooted and had temporary profile
• Followed steps in Brink tutorial to change ImageProfilePath; rebooted with no change
• Restored using Restore Point from before Update 1909 - returned to single profile state (User.000)
• Removed each update that was installed individually and rebooted after each update removal - profile state never changed
• After all updates were removed, repeated the steps above with hidden Administrator, changing profile, etc. - same issue with file in use in c:\users\User
• Followed all steps above with hidden Administrator but without copying files from User.000 to User - same results

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

 

User account .000 after upgrade to 1909

After upgrading to Windows 10 1909, my account (admin) was renamed to admin.000 and a new admin user was added. What the heck (being polite). How do I get my "stuff" from the .000 into the new account?

 

Windows 10 update v1909 Breaks my PC - user folder 'will' renamed 'will.000'

• WARNING: My experience with Greg's #3 suggestion (Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10)
  proved disasterous and required me to restore the disk from an image backup. The problem is that the Update program makes multiple changes to registry keys when renaming your user folder (in my case from c:\users\will to c:\users\will.000) so just changing
  one key is likely to be problematic as you discovered - i.e. Outlook, GoToMeeting, etc need to be reinstalled.

I am still working with Microsoft's Level 3 support (top level) to resolve this issue and so far have spent > 8 hours on the telephone with them. It is far from a simple problem to fix. I am hoping that we will resolve the problem today.