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dolphiness1976
BOY AM I DUMB!!!
It seemed I had 2 admin accounts on my desktop xp pro sp1.
I decided to delete one because I thought it was an "extra" admin
account that got created in the past.
I deleted it thru the computer management console.
The accounts that were listed were:
Administrator - Built in account for administering...
user_name - [no description] (I believe this account was a member of
the Admin group.)
The user_name is the account I deleted. I think the system said it
needed to restart and when it did, my profile settings were gone.
Somehow in between there I had renamed the [built-in] Administrator
account to the user_name.
I tried a system restore, comp said there were no changes made. I
tried the restoration.exe app and it crashed every time I ran the
search. I tried running the app from a memory stick and also from the
desktop.
I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but I keep getting
alerts saying there are changes trying to be made to the registry and
do I want to let it or deny it. I hope it doesn't mean it is writing
over my old registry settings.
Can I get my files back? It was my entire user directory under
G:\Documents and Settings\user_name. The hard drive is partitioned
with the system files on D:\ and the rest on G:\
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much in advance,
Sarah
It seemed I had 2 admin accounts on my desktop xp pro sp1.
I decided to delete one because I thought it was an "extra" admin
account that got created in the past.
I deleted it thru the computer management console.
The accounts that were listed were:
Administrator - Built in account for administering...
user_name - [no description] (I believe this account was a member of
the Admin group.)
The user_name is the account I deleted. I think the system said it
needed to restart and when it did, my profile settings were gone.
Somehow in between there I had renamed the [built-in] Administrator
account to the user_name.
I tried a system restore, comp said there were no changes made. I
tried the restoration.exe app and it crashed every time I ran the
search. I tried running the app from a memory stick and also from the
desktop.
I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but I keep getting
alerts saying there are changes trying to be made to the registry and
do I want to let it or deny it. I hope it doesn't mean it is writing
over my old registry settings.
Can I get my files back? It was my entire user directory under
G:\Documents and Settings\user_name. The hard drive is partitioned
with the system files on D:\ and the rest on G:\
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much in advance,
Sarah