No standard user group and account now missing

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Bill

Hello all,

I messed up badly here. In another newsgroup I read about the control
userpassword2 facility and I went in to have a look. In the advanced options
(IIRC) I saw three options: Admin, limited user and standard (power) user.
My wife's and daughter's accounts were set to limited user, but I figured my
wife could be a standard user. When I clicked on okay I received a message
stating that the user group didn't exist. When I next rebooted my wife's
account was nowhere to be seen. I can't see it in user accounts via the
control panel either. I tried a system restore, but I can't see any system
saves.

This is similar to the Win XP Pro Q297221, from what I can tell, but the
solution for that only works in xp pro not xp home.

Basically, I have two questions:

Is there anything I can do to correct this?

Why was this option available to me if I couldn't use it?

I take the blame for messing the account up ('cus I did it), but shouldn't
the option have been greyed out if it wasn't valid?

Anyway, thanks in advance for any help.

Bill
 
Basically, I have two questions:
Is there anything I can do to correct this?
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Yes. Her account is not showing because that User Accounts
interface keys in on what groups an account is in, and hers has
evidently been removed from the Users group. I have seen others
trapped in this situation, so do not feel bad. After the account is
no longer in the Users group it seems the interfaces do not give
you a way to select the account to make it a member again.
Suppose her account is named "wife". Start / Run cmd to get
a cmd prompt and therein enter
net localgroup Users wife /add
Why was this option available to me if I couldn't use it?
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MS goofed up in versioning some of the interfaces for the
needed differences between Pro and Home (and the docs also).
You are not alone, as I said, in tumbling down this particular drain.
 
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