Like a lot of folks now, I have added a SSD to put Windows 7 on and am using a regular drive for programs and data. Let me start out by saying the OS loaded great. I manually edited the registry to relocate the ProfilesDirectory , the ProgramData, and the Public and Default folders to the D drive. All my software installed and runs just fine. I only edited the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\profilelink section of the registry to all point to the correct folder structure on the D drive. I have done this on many systems and never had a problem. Here's where the problem is ... this computer belongs to someone else. He somehow created at least 4 copies of his data files nested together inside his User folder. I have been working a couple of days now trying to prune out the duplicate files and links. I must have accidentally deleted something I should not have because all of a sudden in this user account the "paste" function is missing from the right click menu inside windows explorer. I can still manually paste with keystrokes, but I can't right click to paste any more. All of the other commands are still there, and if I login as another user the menu is correct ... the paste option is visible. I still have at least 2 more extra copies of his data files in the user folder to get rid of. I have pruned the D drive down from over 400gig to about 150gig. What could I have accidentally deleted to cause this to happen and what do I do to fix it? The OS is completely up to date as far as Windows updates are concerned. I ran a system files scan from the command line and it is normal. I thought about moving the data files from the account temporarily, remove the user, recreate the user and see if that works. If it breaks something else I don't want to have to start all over again. I hope I have been explicit enough in my problem description. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions you may have. I have been in IT for about 20 years and never seen a file structure as messed up as his currently is and have not ever seen this problem before. I am not afraid to manually edit the registry if that is what it takes. Thanks in advance for your help.

Will it be possible to create user profile for the user again ?Thanks, Swapnil Prajapati