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I accepted the offer to update my Windows gaming box to Windows 11, confident that by now Microsoft had the time to iron out any glitches in the update procedure, but...
After booting in Safe Mode, I was able to log in, but now it got stuck at the "Just a moment..." screen.
I waited for 15 minutes and saw all sorts of reassuring messages that things are moving forward (even though they aren't).
After another reboot, I was able to log into Safe Mode, but the desktop and the taskbar failed to load, so the only way to open a file manager is via Win+R (run command).
I finally figure what's wrong with my user profile: C:\Users is now an empty directory. The horror! 
Ok, the Users dir is still there, but it's now in D:\Users, my second drive. How come?
The registry says it should be in %SystemDrive%\Users, but %SystemDrive% is still C:...
How can they have botched it so bad?!?
And how should I fix it? Edit the registry or move Users to C: ?
I figured what broke everything: the C: and D: drives simply got swapped. Perhaps Windows 11 detects them in reverse order?
Do I have to physically swap the drives on the motherboard, or is there a way to reassign the stupid DOS letters?