Paul
If you boot in Safe Mode that gives you the opportunity to access the
Administrators Account ( you can have users who have Administrators
rights ). From this Account you can change or configure User Accounts.
It may be that a user profile has corrupted. Another possibility is that
you have a virus, which has changed a password. Can you run a full
anti-virus scan in Safe Mode.
Another avenue of enquiry is the Event Viewer System log.
Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System
and Application logs for the last boot and post copies.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech
Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.
Yet another solution may be to use System Restore to go back to before
the problem first arose:
http://bertk.mvps.org/
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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