Windows 10: User profiles bottom left hand side have disappeared from login screen

On Win10 login screen, all user profiles in the bottom left hand side disappeared. Impossible to switch users using any other method. I tried numerous steps, creating new profiles, running gpedit, disabling features, running DISM and SFC, etc. to no avail.I finally solved this by discovering a "ghost" user profile in the registry which had no "ProfileImagePath" DWORD. Once this profile Key was deleted, all my accounts reappeared on the login screen. Clearly a Win10 bug: if a single profile is corrupt, instead of hiding that single profile, Windows disables all profiles on the bottom left-hand

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Work User Profile disappeared after Windows 10 update

I use a MS Surface. After a Windows 10 update, my user account profile disappeared. The windows login screen shows user accounts for: defaultuser1 and other user. Neither of those were there before update. I do not have an option to login nor bypass the
listed accounts.

Please advise how to restore my user profile to login screen.

 

CCC Profiles that disappear

id suggest a spyware check

 

After entering password it’s user profile login failed

Hi Vicki Longnecker,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

In order to get clarity on this issue and assist you with appropriate troubleshooting steps, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

• What is the complete error message that you get when you try to login to your computer?
• Are you aware of any changes made to this computer prior to the issue?
• Do you have any other administrator user account on the computer?
• Are you using a Microsoft account or a local account?

Also, you can try launching the On-Screen Keyboard from the sign-in screen by selecting the
Ease of Access button in the lower-right corner of the sign-in screen, and then select
On-Screen Keyboard. Type the password using the On-Screen Keyboard and check if you are able to login to your computer.

I have gone through your post and it appears that this issue could be due to a
user profile corruption or an existence of a temporary profile. In order to get clarity on this issue, I would suggest you to follow the steps below.

I suggest you to first Start your PC in Safe Mode and check if you are able to login to your computer.

If you are able to login to your user account in Safe Mode, then go to
This PC > Double-click on the C: drive (drive where Operating System is installed) >
Users folder. In the Users folder, check for any profiles with an unusual name or if there is a profile named as Temp and please reply us with the result.

We’ll be waiting for your response.