They killed my registry

I had a start-up problem that I could not fix and took my
Laptop to a "repair" shop. While I can now log on they
completely sacked my PC. It appears that they created a
new user called Administrator but did not copy any of the
registry or user information over from my Default user
file. Now the system does not recognize my DVD, any
office applications and apparently there are no file
recognition at all. About the only thing I figured out
to do was get on-line.

Can anyone give me a place to start?

The local administrator always was there as it's created by default. Did you
try logging on as your username and password?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

"ChicagoUser" wrote:
> I had a start-up problem that I could not fix and took my
> Laptop to a "repair" shop. While I can now log on they
> completely sacked my PC. It appears that they created a
> new user called Administrator but did not copy any of the
> registry or user information over from my Default user
> file. Now the system does not recognize my DVD, any
> office applications and apparently there are no file
> recognition at all. About the only thing I figured out
> to do was get on-line.
>
> Can anyone give me a place to start?