Well, sorted it login by as administrator, moving the profile to different place, deleting SID from HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Logged as a user in question, new profile was created, logged off, replaced ntuser.dat & appdata\roaming with previous copied Works fine. I especially needed the user registry part, as I did not want to configure bits again Obviously Start Menu is stored in appdata/local, hence on fresh profile create worked fine