Windows XP Restore - restoring user names

[Guest]

I had a corrupt OS and had to restore my Windows XP. When I rebooted it came
back to a default user name. I can still access all of the files for all of
the previous users but I can't figure out how to restore our old user names
and get all of the settings back. When I try, it creates a new user name
with a .PC extension.

This is especially troubling with MS Outlook because I don't know how to get
to all of our old email, calendar, task, and address book data. Anyone out
there know what to do to get this back to the way it used to be?

 

[John Wunderlich]

I had a corrupt OS and had to restore my Windows XP. When I
rebooted it came back to a default user name. I can still access
all of the files for all of the previous users but I can't figure
out how to restore our old user names and get all of the settings
back. When I try, it creates a new user name with a .PC
extension.

This is especially troubling with MS Outlook because I don't know
how to get to all of our old email, calendar, task, and address
book data. Anyone out there know what to do to get this back to
the way it used to be?

You might want to try this:

"How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473/en-us>

"Windows XP Problems if Your Profile Is Damaged"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326688/en-us>

HTH,
John