Registry Editor Problem

I see that I am speaking with someone else now.

I have already been to the link you have listed above.

I don't understand how to use it in reference to my problem.

I put a different User name in my Registry, rebooted, and was no longer able to get into Win10.

I thought that if I could get into my Registry again, I could change the User name back to the original, reboot, and everything would work fine again.

I have gotten back into my Registry via Greg's help, but the User name that I changed is not there for some reason so I was wondering if there is anything else I could do except make a clean install.

Yes, the username will not be there as the registry you are seeing is for the recovery environment. You need to mount the software registry hive as outlined in that article.

Basically, open regedit as you have been doing, then left click on HKEY_USERS to highlight it

Then in the Regedit menu, go to File -> Load Hive...

Browse to C:\Windows\System32\config and click on SOFTWARE

You will be prompted to give the hive key a name, just call it temp_key

So now under HKEY_USERS you will have a subkey named temp_key

This temp_key will be the equivalent of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE, so you then navigate on this temp_key branch to

Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

You should now easily find the profile you altered.

Once you've fixed the ProfileImagePath, go back to temp_key and left click on it so it's highlighted,

then go to File -> Unload Hive...

Exit out and boot back into Windows.

Good luck :)

Hello,

Followed your instructions (much easier than the online version with all the advertisments), found the exact area needed, changed the User name back to the original, unloaded the Hive, closed out everything, and shutdown. Did a normal restart, put my one and only password in, and got the same result message below. Bummer. So I went back in again to check and see if I had made a mistake, but no, my User name change was correct. It was the only change I made in my initial visit to the Registry.

There is one other thing that I noticed the first time that I tried to login after my initial User change. The name above the password box had both a first and last name. Before I made any change to the Registry, it was always just the first name. I don't know if the name above the password box has anything affect on the system other than just a name. Any suggestions?

The user folder at C:\users\XXXXX is usually the first five letters of the email address used when you first setup the account. Is that what was originally listed in the ProfileImagePath?

Yes. Exactly