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  • Check the environment variables for that user [Click start, begin to type 'envi… & it should find it
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Jan 10, 2020 at 11:06
  • @Tetsujin I've checked the environment variables for that user (and other users, even on other machines) - none of them have an environment variable called %appdata%.
    – Joe
    Commented Jan 10, 2020 at 13:13
  • I see someone edited my post - thanks for the improvement, but I just want to explicitly point out that %appdata% in fact points to %userprofile%\AppData on this machine, and NOT %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming!
    – Joe
    Commented Jan 10, 2020 at 13:29
  • @Joe I thought that was a mistype, as %AppData% should always point to ..\AppData\Roaming and %LocalAppData% to ..\AppData\Local (in general, as you're obviously experiencing abnormal behavior), which is why I thought it was a mistype.
    – JW0914
    Commented Jan 10, 2020 at 13:32
  • @JW0914 A logical assumption indeed, which is why I added the comment after I made the change to your (otherwise better readable) edit. Thanks!
    – Joe
    Commented Jan 10, 2020 at 13:38