User misplaced (I think)

[Nehmo]

[This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died]

I had this Vista Home Basic machine working okay, but the power went
out and then another person who was high used the machine. They named
a new user as administrator. I don't know what else they did.

Now I have a new user as administrator and the previous users are
gone. I still see evidence of them in the file tree but the old
programs are gone and the documents are buried in C > Users > Admin
(that was a name of a previous user that I had named when I first got
the machine)

I've gradually installed some of my old programs and I'm currently
just rebuilding everything, but it would be a lot easier if I could
revert to the old user system.

The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
have two icons there

So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
recover the missing users?

 

[philo]

[This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died]

I had this Vista Home Basic machine working okay, but the power went
out and then another person who was high used the machine. They named
a new user as administrator. I don't know what else they did.

Now I have a new user as administrator and the previous users are
gone. I still see evidence of them in the file tree but the old
programs are gone and the documents are buried in C > Users > Admin
(that was a name of a previous user that I had named when I first got
the machine)

I've gradually installed some of my old programs and I'm currently
just rebuilding everything, but it would be a lot easier if I could
revert to the old user system.

The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
have two icons there

So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
recover the missing users?

It's important to know which drugs the "person who was high" was on.

Depending on which substance was being abused...the way to un-do the damage
will vary.

If alcohol, then the miscreant probably did something illogical,
if he was "barbed-out" then the lazy approach to mischief is likely.

Stimulants cause totally different types of problems...
generally involving a lot of effort...but not much actually done.

Maybe you need to put a password on the machine...
or hide your drugs better next time.

 

[Nehmo]

[This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died]

I had this Vista Home Basic machine working okay, but the power went
out and then another person who was high used the machine. They named
a new user as administrator. I don't know what else they did.

Now I have a new user as administrator and the previous users are
gone. I still see evidence of them in the file tree but the old
programs are gone and the documents are buried in C > Users > Admin
(that was a name of a previous user that I had named when I first got
the machine)

I've gradually installed some of my old programs and I'm currently
just rebuilding everything, but it would be a lot easier if I could
revert to the old user system.

The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
have two icons there

So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
recover the missing users?

It's important to know which drugs the "person who was high" was on.

Depending on which substance was being abused...the way to un-do the damage
will vary.

If alcohol, then the miscreant probably did something illogical,
if he was "barbed-out" then the lazy approach to mischief is likely.

Stimulants cause totally different types of problems...
generally involving a lot of effort...but not much actually done.

Maybe you need to put a password on the machine...
or hide your drugs better next time.

She was on Xanax, crashing off crack, and perhaps a little methadone.
She remembered the user password combination she created, and seh is
reasonably knowledgeable with Windows OSs.
But as I understand, the real problem started with the power outage.
Oh, I didn't provide the drugs, but I'm not above doing certain drugs.
Yes, I understand the drugs were irrelevant to the os problem, but
sometimes I add some personal info to bring the question into the real
world.

 

[philo]

[This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died]

I had this Vista Home Basic machine working okay, but the power went
out and then another person who was high used the machine. They named
a new user as administrator. I don't know what else they did.

Now I have a new user as administrator and the previous users are
gone. I still see evidence of them in the file tree but the old
programs are gone and the documents are buried in C > Users > Admin
(that was a name of a previous user that I had named when I first got
the machine)

I've gradually installed some of my old programs and I'm currently
just rebuilding everything, but it would be a lot easier if I could
revert to the old user system.

The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
have two icons there

So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
recover the missing users?

It's important to know which drugs the "person who was high" was on.

Depending on which substance was being abused...the way to un-do the damage
will vary.

If alcohol, then the miscreant probably did something illogical,
if he was "barbed-out" then the lazy approach to mischief is likely.

Stimulants cause totally different types of problems...
generally involving a lot of effort...but not much actually done.

Maybe you need to put a password on the machine...
or hide your drugs better next time.

She was on Xanax, crashing off crack, and perhaps a little methadone.
She remembered the user password combination she created, and seh is
reasonably knowledgeable with Windows OSs.
But as I understand, the real problem started with the power outage.
Oh, I didn't provide the drugs, but I'm not above doing certain drugs.
Yes, I understand the drugs were irrelevant to the os problem, but
sometimes I add some personal info to bring the question into the real
world.

If there was a power failure...
it can do more damage than someone on drugs...


You will probably have to re-setup your user profiles.

Though chkdsk /f should have run after the system rebooted...
you may want to try it again.


As to the person on crack...
kick them out!
I once made the mistake of taking in a crack-addict for a few days.
She was so pathetic...I had to kick her out.
It was horrible.
I can't think of too many things in this world worse than crack.
You need to get that person far away from you.

 

[Nehmo]

If there was a power failure...
it can do more damage than someone on drugs...

You will probably have to re-setup your user profiles.
How?

Though chkdsk /f should have run after the system rebooted...

Okay, I can do that. However, I've had that suggested almost every
time I've had a problem of one sort or another. It never accomplishes
anything in the situations I've had. But I suppose It can't hurt.

you may want to try it again.

As to the person on crack...
kick them out!\

Well. she's not here. But if she were, I wouldn't kick someone out
just because they had a drug problem. If someone has a problem, the
first reaction should be to help them - not reject them. Also,
although I don't do crack, I'm not Mr. Clean.

I once made the mistake of taking in a crack-addict for a few days.
She was so pathetic...I had to kick her out.
It was horrible.
I can't think of too many things in this world worse than crack.
You need to get that person far away from you.

What specifically happened? Did you care for this person?

And more important, does anybody have any ideas for the computer
problem?

 

[Nehmo]

Nehmo;904865 Wrote:

[This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died]

I had this Vista Home Basic machine working okay, but the power went
out and then another person who was high used the machine. They named
a newuseras administrator. I don't know what else they did.

Now I have a newuseras administrator and the previous users are
gone. I still see evidence of them in the file tree but the old
programs are gone and the documents are buried in C > Users > Admin
(that was a name of a previoususerthat I had named when I first got
the machine)

I've gradually installed some of my old programs and I'm currently
just rebuilding everything, but it would be a lot easier if I could
revert to the oldusersystem.

The Control Panel > add or removeuseraccounts is useless. I only
have two icons there

So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
recover the missing users?

Can you sign on as administrator? I don't know if this will work for
you or not, but a friend of mine had a bit of a similar situation a
week or so ago (no drugs involved though! ) and after trying
several different things with no luck, we finally tried system restore,
although we didn't have much hope--and it fixed it. Worth a try and dead
easy.

I can log on as administrator, but there's only one restore point, and
that's from today well after the problem event a few days ago.