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Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks for you note... I was actually on WIn 10 Pro!

Installing the new PC asked for a Microsoft sign-in first... and I did that (perhaps I should have skipped it!) Anyway, I went through the drudge work of changing owner, giving admin full access, change value, remove full from Admin, and changing owner back to SYSTEM. Things are okay now. It...

There are also entries like this: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather\Windows\SystemIndex\Sites\LocalHost\Paths\7 I'm just not sure when/if they are used and what will happen if the path is invalid. Do I have to take ownership, change it, and give ownership...

I'm setting up a new computer and when my user was created the User Folder used the first five letters of my email address (which is ugly). I modified the folder name and adjusted the HKEY_USERS value. However, some work apparently had been done prior and I corrected the names in all the other...