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The thread discusses a user experiencing registry corruption after losing the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList key, which causes user profiles to load incorrectly. The user notes that user folders are still present on the disk, indicating the issue is limited to registry data. They seek explanations for the corruption and methods to restore the profile keys, but receive little or no advice from other forum members.

siberianItGuy

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I somehow lost the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.

In fact there is only one reg key under CurrentVersion ( WPAEvents ). So that would explain why when I log in as user "ME" the default user profile gets loaded instead of the one for "ME".

Also, under C:\Users I see folders for all the user profiles including "ME" with all the files there and intact as far as I can tell. So whatever happened it seems like this is an issues strictly with registry corruption.

So my questions are:
1) What might have happened to cause such corruption?
2) Most importantly what are some options for restoring the needed profile keys in the registry?

Thanks for any help.