I was premature with the fixing of the squaking beast last week. The problem manifested itself this week again.
To fix the beast, I settles on copying the NTUSER.DAT file from the laptop next door, as the pupil profiles are identical over all the laptops. Let’s hope it works this time.
I suppose it might have been smart if the profiles on the laptops were made to be mandatory. That would stop it occurring in the future…