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by viewer5
2207 days ago
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The last big update replaced my user profile with the temp one, that it apparently makes normally during the process, but also is supposed to swap it back before the update process finishes. Took me a couple days of googling and chanting to figure out how the hell to fix it, and it still left marks, like the start menu has "computer (1)" and "Control Panel (1)", because the temp-profile-owned ones are still out there occupying the "computer" and "Control Panel" names. |
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There are some corruptions I’ve seen on failed Windows Updates where the user profile was entirely gone and had to be recovered from hard disk with data recovery software. It’s fairly rare. For what I do, I don’t usually have the justification to find out why this happens when it does.
The system is hardware and software. Some software problems have an underlying hardware problem causing them. Relatedly, drive failure is very common in the field, especially on laptops. SSD failure is also a thing, but nearly an order of magnitude less frequent in my own workload. Neither here nor there, just trying to say there’s a lot of ways a computer can break. In my opinion it’s great they work as well as they do considering what I’ve seen them put through.
[1] https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/145678-fix-user-profile-...