A hive contains a group of keys and values that correspond to a particular portion of the Windows operating system. Business administrators can edit Ntuser.dat, a hive that contains settings for the ...

I thought I was smart and used the PendingFileRenameOperations registry value to replace ntuser.dat on reboot. Nope. Source file is deleted, destination is not replaced. The idea is that I take ...

I was cleaning up a virus mess today. Vista, standard user. I switched to an Administrator login, removed problem files w/ defender. The infected account then got errors at log in saying "Could not ...

What is Event ID 1552? Event ID 1552 occurs when Windows cannot load a user’s profile registry hive, typically the ntuser.dat file, because another process has locked it during login. This prevents ...