Solved Help | Where to find this transparent default User Account Picture?

ruso said:

I have found a solution for this after hours of trying to restore the default user profile picture.

Open Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountPicture\Users

Under users you will find something like this: (Referring to each user you have actually changed the profile pic)

Code:

S-1-5-21-4256685687-1742167590-3044690774-1003

This contains pointers to 11 images, those are all the same picture you once selected as your profile picture, resized by windows.
Something like this:

Code:

Image96"="C:\\Users\\Public\\AccountPictures\\S-1-5-21-4256685687-1742167590-3044690774-1003\\{B55E58CE-3DC0-46F3-94EC-DCFAE70BFB71}-Image96.jpg

All you have to do is delete those keys. But you can't do it from there. Now close registry editor.

In order to delete them you have to download psexec (PsExec - Sysinternals) and run "psexec -i -s regedit.exe" from an elevated command prompt.

Now go back to logon screen (logout) and you'll see the default picture in back (the transparent default version).

Hope this helps someone, can't believe there's not just a restore to default button.

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