Windows 7 Updates installed in registry

A more portable and probably reliable option would be to check these values via WMI - you'd be interested in the Win32_OperatingSystem class.

Technet has a brief primer with vbscript code on this class.

You can acomplish that changint the path using MMC, adding the snaping Local Users and Groups, and changing the profile of the Path.

After that if you get the Temporary Profile error you can fix it starting the computer with an account with addministrative rights.

Open the registry (regedit.exe). HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Delete the key with the SID of the USER. (This key will generated again after the user starts for the first time)

If you dont know the SID of the user of you are running you can get it starting a command prompt with that user (run as works) and running whoami /user