Can't Open User Accounts In Control Panel... :-(

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It's the only thing in Control Panel which will not open - and I need to
reactivate the password on an account.

How can I get my User Accounts link back... ?
 
nokomis said:
It's the only thing in Control Panel which will not open - and I
need to reactivate the password on an account.

How can I get my User Accounts link back... ?
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Work-around...
Start button --> RUN --> control userpasswords2 --> OK
From there you can reset the passwords/etc.

What error do you get? Anything in your even log when you try?

How To View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/308427
 
When I got to the User Accounts by your method, the 'Reset Password' button
is greyed out.Whenf I do the Ctrl-Alt-Del, as it instructs, it opens the Task
Manager - where I do not see anything to do with Passwords... :-)

I tried another suggestion to reset registry and got the following 2 notes:

RegSvr32 mshtml.dll loaded but DllRegisterServer entry point not found.
File can't be registered.

DllRegisterServer failed in themeui.dll Return code 0x80004005

I tried doing sfc /scannow, and inserting my original XP disk but that did
not repair it. Should I try it with the XP 2 disk... ?

Thanks for your help... :-)
 
nokomis said:
It's the only thing in Control Panel which will not open - and I
need to reactivate the password on an account.

How can I get my User Accounts link back... ?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Work-around...
Start button --> RUN --> control userpasswords2 --> OK
From there you can reset the passwords/etc.

What error do you get? Anything in your even log when you try?

How To View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/308427
Click to expand...
When I got to the User Accounts by your method, the 'Reset
Password' button is greyed out.Whenf I do the Ctrl-Alt-Del, as it
instructs, it opens the Task Manager - where I do not see anything
to do with Passwords... :-)

I tried another suggestion to reset registry and got the following
2 notes:

RegSvr32 mshtml.dll loaded but DllRegisterServer entry point not
found. File can't be registered.

DllRegisterServer failed in themeui.dll Return code 0x80004005

I tried doing sfc /scannow, and inserting my original XP disk but
that did not repair it. Should I try it with the XP 2 disk... ?
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Probably a stupid question - but you did *highlight* the user in the list
that you wish to change the password for before trying to press the "Reset
password" button - correct? (In my work-around..)

Assuming you might have looked through this thread and tried most of their
stuff?
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t492641.html

JRosenfeld suggests a Doug Knox tool - and that is nearly never a bad bet.
=)
warwagon has an interesting method that might work for you near the end of
the thread...
If I think of anything else, I'll post back...
If you have more to add here that you have tried -- please post away!
 
I did highlight the user...

The warwagon stuff did not work - run could not find cd rd or start in those
commands
 
nokomis said:
I did highlight the user...

The warwagon stuff did not work - run could not find cd rd or start
in those commands
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WHA?!

Those are basic Windows XP command line commands. CD is Change Directory
and has been around forever and in most OSes. RD is Remove Directory.
Start is newer - XP really - might have been around in 2000...

That has me a little shaken up.

Start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK

At the command prompt, type:

ver

Press enter (copy/paste into notepad or something...)

Then type:

set >> c:\system.txt

Press enter.

In Windows Explorer, browse C:\ and open that file and copy/paste that here
along with the VER results. You can fudge the names of your users and
computer if you like - although it would really be of little use to most
people. What i am really interested in seeing is your PATH statement.
 
Version 5.1.2600

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Birdie\Application Data
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
CLIENTNAME=Console
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=TOOTSIE
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Birdie
LOGONSERVER=\\TOOTSIE
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0209
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\BIRDIIE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\BIRDIE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=TOOTSIE
USERNAME=Birdie
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Birdie
windir=C:\WINDOWS
 
A couple of other things:

The User Accounts WILL open from the Control Panel under the other user
account on the computer - this is a limited account, so I cannot access my
profile.

The control useraccounts2 command does not give me the option to
'reactivate' my password - just reset it.
 
Yet another thing - I see this morning that I cannot access the Insert
Picture in my Outlook Express - can Insert File, but nothing happens when I
click on Insert Picture... :-(
 
nokomis said:
A couple of other things:

The User Accounts WILL open from the Control Panel under the other
user account on the computer - this is a limited account, so I
cannot access my profile.

The control useraccounts2 command does not give me the option to
'reactivate' my password - just reset it.
Click to expand...
Yet another thing - I see this morning that I cannot access the
Insert Picture in my Outlook Express - can Insert File, but nothing
happens when I click on Insert Picture... :-(
Click to expand...

Okay - sounds like you may have a corrupt user profile.

If you boot to Safe Mode and log on as "Administrator" (may have no
password...) --> Can you use the Control Panel --> User Accounts or control
userpasswords2 option there?
 
I was able to open User Accounts in safe mode and reactivated my password
protection... :-) Still cannot open it otherwise. Still having the no access
to insert picture problem with OE...

Any suggestions on how to repair these things... ?
 
Some other things:

In addition to the User Account problem and the OE problem, IE won't keep my
homepage settings - none of these things occur on the other account on this
computer, just on my account... :-)

I am running the new IE7 Ver. 7.0.5700.6 - could that be boogering things
up... ?
 
nokomis said:
Some other things:

In addition to the User Account problem and the OE problem, IE
won't keep my homepage settings - none of these things occur on the
other account on this computer, just on my account... :-)

I am running the new IE7 Ver. 7.0.5700.6 - could that be boogering
things up... ?
Click to expand...

More than likely - running beta software is not helping matters - and it may
be waht corrupted your profile. I am pretty sure from your descriptions -
the profile (your main one) is toast. You likely should create a new user
for yourself, then go in and copy your data (documents, contacts, pictures,
etc.) from the old profile to the new one. Not the entire profile - just
the data.

I state this because you keep stating that other profiles do not have the
problems that your main profile has. To me, that just points to the obvious
conclusion of a defunt user profile. And trying to correct one of those may
never work. =(
 
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