Comments on: User Accounts missing after upgrading to Windows 11

By: Ivan Ferrer

Ivan Ferrer — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:35:00 +0000

after upgrading to Windows 10 (free) from Windows 7, I lost one of my user accounts!!
But solved it.
I didn’t remember that this account was the Administrator one with another name. I had to recover it logging in as another user, right-clicking MyComputer->Manage, then select Local Users and Groups, then click Users folder. You see all accounts there. Double click your lost/hidden account and Enable it in the popup window.
Yuck! I’m saved!
Thanks for this article anyway.

By: Lightnnig

Lightnnig — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:28:00 +0000

i got as far as looking in the setting for the profiles and the guest profile imade and a guest2 nether are showing on there but they show in the account manger tho… =/

By: maggie

maggie — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:17:00 +0000

hi not sure what to do, my user account control wont let me do anything, the yes button is always greyed out. need help badly

By: MKhan

MKhan — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:10:00 +0000

In reply to mstrenke.13.

The accounts get disabled during the clean install
How to enable these accounts in Windows 8/8.1
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management
Expand Local Users and Groups
Click on Users
Select the local user with the missing profile
click More Actions for the user (under the Action pane on the far right corner)
Select properties for this user
uncheck the option “Account is Disabled”
You can now use this account to login as a local user once the option is cleared.

By: mstrenke.13

mstrenke.13 — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:36:00 +0000

I could not get this to work. I have tried 7 times and it says not responding everytime I hit the “settings” button. Any ideas?