problem user with admin rights changed to guest account : help!

[Cuz Tafkatt]

Hello,

I'm still having a problem with a user on windows XP home (on NTFS). When I
booted the system the user was gone from the logon menu. And it doesn't
exist when I use Control Panel User Passwords or via run User Passwords2. I
can still logon with this account, but where the account used to have
administrator rights, it now seems to have guest rights. Since I cannot
access the account in aforementioned ways, I don't know how to make any
changes to it (or in the worst case even to get rid of it).

I'm running into problems with encrypted folders that I can't open with
another administrative account, nor with this guest account. I'm being told
that there are no backups of these files (that seem to be of some kind of
crucial nature).

Someone in this newsgroup (purplehaz) suggested I should perform a system
restore, but system restore is turned off on this system.

Any suggestions are more than welcome.

Regards,

Cuz

 

[Drew Tognola]

click 'Start', 'Settings', 'Control Panel', 'User Accounts'.
Click the account in question. Click 'Change the Account type', Change
settings from 'Limited' to 'Computer Administrator'. click 'Change Account
type'. Log off and restart windows.
Drew