Corrupt windows user profile in win11

Question

Replace my own corrupt windows user profile in win11

Answer 1

Your approach is correct and supported, just make sure you sign in once with another admin account first, then rename your profile folder in C:\Users, delete your profile key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList that matches your SID, restart the PC, and sign in again with your same email, Windows will create a fresh profile automatically and reconnect your account, then open PowerPoint and sign in again if prompted, this rebuilds your user profile and resolves app level issues like Copilot not reading slide content.

Answer 2

Hello, can you still sign in to your current account at least once or is it completely unusable?

You can reuse the same email on a new profile by first creating a temporary local admin account, then sign out and sign in with that account, go to Settings, Accounts, Other users, add a new user and choose “I don’t have this person’s sign-in information” then “Add a user without a Microsoft account,” make it admin, sign in to that new account, then go back to Settings and connect it to your existing email under Your info, Sign in with a Microsoft account instead, after that you can remove the old corrupted profile from Settings, Accounts, Other users and delete its folder from C:\Users which will give you a clean profile using the same credentials.

Answer 3

My sign in credentnails (email, mobile number) are already used for my admin account on this machine so, I cant create another user account for myselfFYI

I know how to sort the corrpupt windows user profile issue

I'm just bit fuzzy on signing back in with a new user account using my current credentials as I dont have any other personal email or mobile phone to use