Windows 10 Create New Profile For Existing User

You want to create a new user profile for existing users on Windows 10 correctly, and you also need the critical data from your existing user profile.

Creating a user profile on Windows 10 is very easy using the following process, but before, I recommend renaming your existing profile first.

Because maybe the solution you are looking for may not be available in your new user profile; if you delete the existing profile and create the new one, you have to configure the new profile from scratch, or you may also face the following error in the new profile:

Few of the Windows 10 Apps, i.e. Calculator, Photos, Store, etc., will not work.,
You will be Signed-in with a temporary user profile.

So, to avoid this situation will first rename the existing profile (not delete it) and create a new one. If needed, we will use the existing user profile in future or maintain it as a backup.

Windows 10 create a new profile for an existing user by following the steps:

Step 01: Login as Administrator

To delete or recreate the corrupt user profile on your computer, you must log in using your administrator account on the computer.

After successful login with your administrator account, please follow the below steps carefully:

Step 02: Rename the Existing User Profile

Open the file explorer and follow the below instruction:

Go to C:\Users
Select the respective profile and right-click on it
Either Rename or Delete the profile.

As shown in the above image, add something like .old at the end of the user profile.

Note: I highly recommended to rename the existing profile even if its corrupted, because if anything goes sideways you can again rename and login with the corrupted profile.

Step 03: Rename the Registry file for the Existing User Profile

To appropriately rename a Windows user profile in Windows 10, you also need to edit and rename the registry file for that particular user.

1. Press Windows Key + R on your keyboard to open Run Window and type regedit

2. Click OK to open Registry Editor

3. Copy the below path and paste on the registry editor path:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

4. Select the User Profile which you want to recreate and Right click on it

5. Select Rename option to rename the profile

Note: While selecting the User Profile make sure the correct username is showing on the above green marked file.

6. Add .old at the end of the user profile

Now you have successfully edited the registry file of the user profile. This way, the user profile will be kept safe and might be helpful in the future if you are looking to reuse it.