I managed to get a serious infection, i.e. a couple trojans, several worms,
and a bunch of spyware, malware, and adware. After running a couple programs
to delete these problems, Windows XP wouldn't start up. I tried to repair
with my Windows installation disk, but it wasn't able to do so. I ended up
doing a reinstall to get my computer to start. I lost all my bookmarks,
favorites, passwords, cookies, yada yada. When I did the reinstall, Windows
gave me a new user name by combining my full name with the name I gave the
computer. I was able to recover some of my data by copying from files stored
under my old user name, but when I start any of my MS Office programs, I get
a message saying they haven't been installed for the current user. How can I
get them back without re-installing MS Office for my new user name? I have
MS Office XP Pro (academic version). Any ideas for bringing everything back
to the way it was would be gratefully received.

You can try to either take ownership of the files in question and see if
that will allow you to get them with the new profile.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Or you can try to copy over your old profile.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

--
~Alex T.~
~A.K.A. Makaveli213~
~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

"EmperorGuido" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I managed to get a serious infection, i.e. a couple trojans, several
> worms,
> and a bunch of spyware, malware, and adware. After running a couple
> programs
> to delete these problems, Windows XP wouldn't start up. I tried to repair
> with my Windows installation disk, but it wasn't able to do so. I ended
> up
> doing a reinstall to get my computer to start. I lost all my bookmarks,
> favorites, passwords, cookies, yada yada. When I did the reinstall,
> Windows
> gave me a new user name by combining my full name with the name I gave the
> computer. I was able to recover some of my data by copying from files
> stored
> under my old user name, but when I start any of my MS Office programs, I
> get
> a message saying they haven't been installed for the current user. How
> can I
> get them back without re-installing MS Office for my new user name? I
> have
> MS Office XP Pro (academic version). Any ideas for bringing everything
> back
> to the way it was would be gratefully received.
>