User Accounts missing after upgrading to Windows 11/10

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Are you missing user accounts from your PC after upgrading to Windows 11 or Windows ten? If afterwards upgrading your Windows reckoner to the adjacent version, you notice that one or more User Accounts are missing, then this postal service will exist able to help y'all ready the issue.

User Accounts missing after upgrading

In the course of the outcome, nosotros found that the user account which we were missing had its entry under the hood of the Users directory. We also could not rename the entry because rename option is greyed out for it. Too when we tried to create a new user account with the aforementioned name, apparently Windows didn't allow us to do so.

Then how do we solve this effect? Well, in this article we tell you lot the mode to fix this. After doing a bit of research, we found that the User we were missing was withal available inside Windows simply it has lost group membership, i.e. in that location is no grouping to which this user belongs, that's why it is non bachelor to you. You can check this in the following way:

i. Press Windows Cardinal + R combination, type put sysdm.cpl in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open up the Organization Properties.

2. In the System Properties window, switch to Advanced tab, under User Profiles, click Settings.

3. Now you can see all the user accounts on your organization. The Business relationship Unknown hither is the user business relationship which doesn't vest to any group.

So if by anyhow nosotros add that user to any grouping, we can recover it as our Local User account. Here are the steps you would demand to follow in order to bring the missing user account in a grouping:

1. Open up administrative Command Prompt.

2. Paste the post-obit command and printing Enter:

net localgroup "Administrators" [Figurer Name]\[Missing User] /add together

In the above command, yous have to substitute [Calculator Name] with your computer name and [Missing User] with the Local Account user name which you lost after upgrade. After a reboot, you can use the Recover user account selection which was missing later the upgrade.

Hope this helps!

Related: How to recover deleted User business relationship profile in Windows.

An Electric Engineer by profession, Kapil is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Content Creator. Please read the entire post & the comments first & create a system restore signal earlier making whatsoever changes to your system.