Missing User icon at Welcome screen

[LS]

Hi

I have a PC with three user accounts. One of them has suddenly lost the
user icon on the welcome screen. Using Ctrl-Alt-Del I can access the
account, but I want to get teh icon back!

Any ideas how I can do this?

 

[Leonard Grey]

Control Panel > User Accounts > 'pick an account to change' > 'change my
picture'

 

[LS]

Leonard

Sorry, I did not fuly explain the problem

The user account does not appear in the User Account screen either. If I
try to add the account, I am told it already exists.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

LS

 

[Leonard Grey]

That's a lot different.

If a user account becomes corrupted all you can do is delete it and
start over. But first...

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

 

[LS]

Leonard

Thanks - is there a registry key I should delete to remove the old account
as I cannot create a new one with the same name.

LS

 

[LS]

OK - a lot of searching on the iste produced the answer I needed:

While logged on with an account that is a Computer Administrator, open a
command
prompt window (Start -> Run -> cmd.exe).
At the prompt, enter the following command substituting the correct name
where
you see USERACCOUNT.

net localgroup users /add USERACCOUNT

Hopefully, you'll see an entry that tells you the command completed
successfully.

This worked for me and hopefully will help someone else out

LS