Anyone got experience with broken user profiles in Windows 7?

[minilogoguy18]

The problem I'm having is my main profile that I use has weird problems, mainly with privileges, it acts as if the account has no admin control even though it does and I have disabled everything that could possibly stop it. So I've tried multiple things like make 2 more admin accounts, use 1 to copy all files under C:/users/%username%/ but of course it wont let me even with another admin account. If I use another account though to do something that the main one wont things work normally.

 

I understand that it normally doesn't let you copy files from a user account since it's tied to that user but according to everything I'm googling it's the only way to restore a broken account by copying files to a new account and then renaming the new account to match the old. Seems also that broken windows 7 profiles is a common thing.

 

Help anyone?

[eezstreet]

Try using the icacls command in the Command Prompt. That usually worked for me.

[minilogoguy18]

There are so many options to this command, got an example of what I'd type to get the permissions needed (special only?) to do what I need to do to gain control over all subfolders and files under C:/users/%username%/

[Szico VII]

I'd have saved my user documents, created a new user and then transferred my documents across, and deleted the old one.

[eezstreet]

minilogoguy: just CD into the folder and type "icacls" -- that should be enough.

 

EDIT: nope.jpg

Should be:

icacls "Your directory here" /grant <Your user account in Windows' name>:F