Would anyone agree that the windows 8 user profile services are very broken? I am getting corrupted profiles quite often at the moment, and when you delete it locally and clear the registry instead of generating a clean user profile, all the windows 8 parts of it are broken! The store, and metro apps aren't replaced in appdata the start screen is all empty... It appears that these parts of the profile do not sync, so if a profile is damaged, all windows 8 parts are lost since not being on the server and the only way they will work again is on another computer. If you switch between multiple computers, the start screen goes crazy on both and is just unusable.  Anybody else noticed this?

• Edited by Jacob Halsey Sunday, September 07, 2014 3:45 PM

I agree and have spent a lot of time getting very confused as things that did work just stop with permission issues. It is made even more confusing if you work with Office/365 as I do and have a number of different accounts to deal with as they tend to connect to the live IDs the machine is logged on with that do not necessarily match the MSOL ids. I have had confusing issues where I can author a doc in Word/2013, save to SharePoint online, which synchs to the local drive. If I use word to edit the local doc the upload centre synch fails due to permissions! etc. W7 does not have such tight links but I was just connecting one of my 365 accounts to get a message saying "In order to connect libraries...your machine must register the user profile service application used by this site..." Old site URL and New site URL, both two different O365 accounts. It can only get better but don't avoid it by going backwards, learn to respect it and work with it on the current. Cheers.

Update: I realise that the method of recreating a broken profile in windows 8+ is different to previous versions:

Originally one would delete the folder from C:\Users, and then delete the registry keys in HKLM...\ProfileList.

Now it is very important to delete a profile through System > Advanced System Settings > User Profiles > Settings > Delete. This way the full windows 8 profile will be regenerated in the next logon.