Windows 7 user account network and administration problem

Question

Hello
I hope I am in the correct place and that my problem can be looked at, if not could I ask the moderator to move this post to the correct forum.
I have a very unusual problem that I hope can be resolved here.
I have 3 x Win 7 machines ( 2 x Pro and 1 x Ultimate ) all on my network but recently I tried to SFTP/SSH using winscp into one of them ( Pro ) only to find that access was denied – it took ages to find out why
– I finally noticed that the user name I created ( that has admin rights ) was not actually in the c:\Users\    folder what has happened is that all the files that should be in my created windows account are sitting in a folder called “user”which
is insidec:\Users\
I then created a folder that has the same user login nameI originally created, inside
c:\Users\
and copied all the files from the “user” folder and then tried to STFP/SSH into the original created user name but that did not work
I then tried this link
User Account - Hide using method 2 point 12, i.e adding (1) to the SpecialAccounts key, but that has not unhide my user account.
Using this cmd below
net user > Desktop\Users.txt
lists the users but I would expect to see i.e
Administrator ( followed by ) …. (created username)
What I am seeing however is below
Guest ( followed by ) …. (user)
When I use the command
lusrmgr.msc I see below :-
Name = user
Full name = my created windows login
Description = blank
I hope I can get some help here – I have cloned my disc in case of any mishaps but all I want to do is get my created win 7 user account working as it should, incidentally the login welcome screen appears on the
created account.

Answer 1

Hello
MeipoXu
I think that I have managed to get into a better position since your last email above, but not quite where I need to be.
I have posted 3 jpg's
jpg key 501 = c:\Users\D&S
jpg key1000 = c:\Users\User
jpg winscp = my SFTP attempt to my problem machine
key 1000 = c:\Users\User .. everything I try to do will not get rid of this key.
However c:\Users\D&S finally appeared, and I was able to SFTP login using winscp only to find the root reports as c:\Users\user.
What I should see is c:\Users\D&S but I can only access c:\Users\User and not c:\Users\D&S
( Does that all make sense ? )
The other thing I noticed was that key 501
is normally reserved for the guest account c:\users\guest
But it has taken over c:\Users\D&S ... if you can get me past this then I will be extremely grateful
I need to see the root reported back as c:\Users\D&S   not c:\Users\User
Turning to your post above and may I thank you for your help in trying to resolve this but before I proceed I need to be very clear about what you are suggesting I do.
Your Quote
Enable the built-in administrator account and login with it .To enable the built-in account:
net user administrator /active:yes
Q) Do I login with new the Admin account first then net user administrator /active:yes ?
Your Quote
Cut the whole folder and paste it to the Users folder , then navigate to the registry keys"ProfileImagePath" and change it  to "c:\Users\account name".
Q) Cut and past which folder ? is it the folder c:\Users\D&S ? and where am I pasting it as "D&S" already exists in c:\Users\D&S .. I already created it and copied all the contents from "user" to "D&S"
Your Quote
Restart the machine and login with that account and then have a check.
Q) That bit must mean login with D&S
Your Quote
If the issue has gone ,please run "net user administrator /active:no" to disable the built-in account.Again
A) Got that bit :-)
Apologies for the above but I have found to my cost that if you assume what something means it can turn out to be mis understood and I could end up creating more trouble for myself
I will submit the winscp jpg separately as you can only submit 2 jpg's per message
Thank you