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MateoRodriguez
Jul 03, 2026Iron Contributor
A temporary user folder appears after restarting Windows 10 following a registry edit
After modifying the registry, my computer wouldn’t boot to the login screen after a restart. Repeated restarts caused two temporary folders named something like “temp.laptop” to appear in the C:\User...
Jamony
Jul 03, 2026MCT
Hi MateoRodriguez, I’d be careful here and make a restore point before cleaning anything else. The leftover Open with entries are usually stored under the user file association keys or HKCR\Applications, while the temp-profile issue points to the ProfileList area of the registry, so I’d confirm the real profile path is healthy first and only then remove stale app references.