user account access

[Guest]

I had to reinstall XP, but now I can't access some old data (e.g. my
documents) of previous user accounts under "documents and setting" that had
administrator privilege. Is there any way to around this?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

You simply need to take ownership of those folders and files.

MVP Rick Rogers has a good explanation of the step by step process.
Taking Ownership:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

 

[Guest]

many thanks. This helped.

You simply need to take ownership of those folders and files.

MVP Rick Rogers has a good explanation of the step by step process.
Taking Ownership:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User