Deleted User account and want to reatore it

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To make a long story short, I deleted one of two user accounts from the login
screen. Just my luck it was the wrong one. Now all the email for that user
through outlook express is gone and the excel and word documents are missing.
The email was not saved on the server and the documnets seem to no longer be
on the hard drive( I did a file name search). I have tried system restore
and nothing has changed. I want to restore the user account and all the
information it stored. Is this possible to do, or should I just give up and
move on?
 
See if there is a folder of this user in "Documents and settings" folder. If
yes, but you can't enter it (then you have no rights to search in it as well)
-- then read http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
ant take the ownership of this folder with all its objects.

But if there is no that user's folder, i.e. if you deleted this user with its
profile... Were you stopped to use the computer (shut it down) immediately
after you deleted this user -- you had a great chance to restore the files
using the software for files recovery (like R-Studio and similar). You can try
to do that and now, but the more computer works -- the less is the chance to
recover the documents. And if you don't have a Time Machine, most likely you
should just give up and move on now... Alas.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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