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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:46 PM
Hi,
It's possible, as a c# program running with local SYSTEM user account, to retreive profile directories of all online accounts in a Windows 10 machine?
It seems that they aren't stored in the normal C:\Users
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 2:58 PM âś…Answered | 1 vote
User profiles are stored in the registry, at :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 2:56 PM
Depends upon what you mean. Yes any user who has their profile loaded by Windows will be in the Users folder. However network policies may have it set up to wipe the user profile when logging off. This is generally done in lab environments. Additionally a user can be logged into the system without having their profile loaded. This tends to be done when running services under user accounts.
It doesn't matter whether the account itself is a local account or a MS account, a Users profile folder is still created. This is where Windows stores the user's registry data, documents, etc. It isn't created until the user logs in though.
Michael Taylor
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