What profile does Safe Mode Use

[Robert]

When you do f-8 and choose safe mode command prompt or safe mode with
network support - what
profile is used ? What registry key shows the name
of the profile currently being used. I know the subkeys
beneath the 'profilelist' key specify each Username
with a profile in the registry - but if i start up in safe
mode with network support what registry can I look
at that says "this is the profile currently being used
this session". thanks , bob

 

[Steve Nielsen]

It will be the currently logged-in user.

At the command prompt type

echo %userprofile%

Alternately you can use the SET command with no parameters which will
show you the current environment, including which userprofile is in use.

Steve

 

[robert]

Thanks for the reply - The reason i was interested is
because of another post of a user who was having a
problem with logon stalling - timing out at the
loading of the user profile during startup. So i
thought it would be good to rename the profile folder
and restart and let the system build a new profile folder.

I Wasn't sure what profile safe mode used ..and the set
cmd settles that. Since the users profile is loaded
during safe mode - i could'nt rename it in safe mode
after attrib -h the ntuser.dat file as it reports
'file is being used'.

I guess that now i look into using the repair
process/recovery console -whatever to start outside
of or before windows loads to rename the profile
folder on disk. bob

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Why could you not login as a different user with admin rights and do the
same thing? I don't even think you'd even need to be in Safe Mode.

Steve

 

[Robert]

As i say i got interested in this because of another users problem and
the chance for me to learn something thru that .

However , i assumed that user had chosen the 'always assume this
user logs on at startup' option when he installed and thus was going
into windows without ever being presented a logon box - kiosk sorta
mode. Except now he could not get in to change the situation.

Is there a way to break out of that process and force a logon box
for another user ?If you had NOT chosen to require every user to log on
but had instead set up this kiosk mode type of logon ?

bob