Account Profile Fixer

It might sometimes happen that you have certain issues related to the way Windows is working. Or, more specific, not working. Problems such as a non-functioning Edge browser, Store apps that do not load, failure of Windows to reveal the notification area, or the impossibility to log in to Windows, might be difficult to solve unless a new user is created and the entire data is migrated from one account to another. Account Profile Fixer is a lightweight software utility designed to help you perform such tedious tasks quicker and safer.

The application requires no installation. As soon as you launch it, you are greeted by a simple window that reveals a list of all the user accounts of the current system, along with their status (e.g., administrator, simple user, etc.). The only things to do are to select the user profile that experiences problems and choose to fix it by pressing the corresponding button.

Once the account to repair is selected, Account Profile Fixer displays a text paragraph explaining how the application works and what actions it will take. In short, it sends a reboot signal to the computer and then proceeds to create a new temporary account, which is used to handle system problems such as those enumerated above. Once the issues are solved, this temporary account is deleted, and the PC is restarted once more.

Optionally, you can configure Account Profile Fixer to keep all the Windows Store apps and the system appdata from the old account, but note that this might affect the capability of the application to fix problems in Windows.

Depending on the size of the files to migrate and the nature of the identified problems, the repairing process might take more or less time. Even so, the new account is usually set up in a few minutes. Once Windows boots in and starts, you can use your computer exactly as you did before.

At Windows start, Account Profile Fixer displays its log file, which depicts all the actions the application undertook to repair the broken user profile.

Account Profile Fixer comes as a solution to having to create a new user account and move all the data manually. You can use it when nothing else works to solve the issues you are facing in Windows. However, please make sure you create backups of your data beforehand, just to be on the safe side of things.