missing adminstrator account

[hopeless in nh]

Yesterday I added my first new user account and ended up losing my
administrator account. I now understand that it is there but hidden and that
i really shouldn't be using it as my daily account.

I evidently setup only the admin user when i bought my computer two years
ago. Yesterday I set up a second user and now everything "me" is missing.

Here's my question: Is there a way to move all my settings from
administrator to a new user. I need my taskbar, my desktop, my outlook email
accounts and settings, my ie settings, my excel toolbar... Otherwise, I think
I'll have to use the now hidden administrator account as I have neither the
time or energy to start all over.

Thanks for any help.

 

[John Wunderlich]

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Here's my question: Is there a way to move all my settings from
administrator to a new user. I need my taskbar, my desktop, my
outlook email accounts and settings, my ie settings, my excel
toolbar... Otherwise, I think I'll have to use the now hidden
administrator account as I have neither the time or energy to
start all over.

Try this Microsoft Knowledge-Base article:

"How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
Windows XP"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151>

HTH,
John

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Yesterday I added my first new user account and ended up losing my
administrator account. I now understand that it is there but hidden and
that
i really shouldn't be using it as my daily account.

Yep. It's all still there. And if this happened, you are using XP Pro.

I evidently setup only the admin user when i bought my computer two years
ago. Yesterday I set up a second user and now everything "me" is missing.

It's actually just in the Admin account, which disappears from the Welcome
screen as soon as a standard user account is created.

Here's my question: Is there a way to move all my settings from
administrator to a new user. I need my taskbar, my desktop, my outlook
email
accounts and settings, my ie settings, my excel toolbar... Otherwise, I
think
I'll have to use the now hidden administrator account as I have neither
the
time or energy to start all over.

Bad plan. The migration will only take a short while. Make the time; if
the Admin account corrupts, you have to start over *completely*.

Thanks for any help.

It's pretty easy, though if you can't remember your email server names or
account passwords, log back into the Administrator account, and use a little
utility named mailpv to read and save this information. That utility
*will* be detected by antivirus software as a threat - it's not a virus, but
it does password stealing for you. It will not, however, display port or
SSL settings. This can save you a good chunk of time.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mailpv.html

And this page is helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151


HTH
-pk