Hive Information for User Profiles

Information about user profile files appears in the following keys:

• The HiveList subkey lists all hives that are active but not profiles that are not active. (See its entry in "CurrentControlSet\Control Subkeys," earlier in this chapter.)
• The ProfileList subkey lists all the profiles known on the computer, whether or not the profiles are active, under the following Registry path:

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

Each installed user profile has its own subkey under the ProfileList subkey, and that subkey contains the following entry:

ProfileImagePath REG_EXPAND_SZ Profile hive filename

Specifies the path and filename for the hive for this user. The hive file name that is the value for ProfileImagePath includes a portion of the username associated with that SID_#, so that you can identify the user to which it belongs.

Default: %SystemRoot%\system32\config\hiveFilename

Sid REG_BINARY Number assigned by system