Manually Determine User’s Profile Path

If you can log on as a user, you can run

echo %UserProfile%

to get the correct profile path. But if you are logged on as another user, or even across the network, here is the down-and-dirty way to get the same info.

1. List domain users and their SIDS, from an administrative command prompt:

wmic useraccount get domain,name,sid

2. Open this registry key to see the list of profiles on the machine:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

3. Look for the key under ProfileList that matches the SID. Then in that key, look for the ProfileImagePath value. This gives the path to the local profile.