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Peter J Newman
Hi,
This is beginning to drive me nuts!
I'm using WinXP and apart from the usual accounts (Administrator and Guest)
I have one other account - mine - which an administrator account.
Everything seems to work after a completely new install, except when I try
to add a new account, and what happens is this...
I try to set up the account from Control Panel/User Accounts/Create a new
account but if I try to log in to the new account (or change user) I get a
pop up window from the Welcome Screen (which has the icon for the new
account) saying I can't login to the account because it can't find the
account files (or something like that). When I look in Explorer in
Documents and Settings, there is no folder for the new account. However, if
I reboot my PC and then look in Documents and Settings, two folders have
been added...
New_User and COMPUTERNAME.New_User
....and I can log in to the account, but the Win XP menu is missing items
(Internet Explorer and Outlook, for example) and the left hand side is
empty! Also, when I try to run any software, I get an error (In Outlook XP
2002, it tries to reinstall and then says it can't start) and the desktop
isn't the default one normally associated with a new account (i.e. green
fields, blue sky, Windows XP tour, etc.)
Any help would be appreciated.
Peter
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This is beginning to drive me nuts!
I'm using WinXP and apart from the usual accounts (Administrator and Guest)
I have one other account - mine - which an administrator account.
Everything seems to work after a completely new install, except when I try
to add a new account, and what happens is this...
I try to set up the account from Control Panel/User Accounts/Create a new
account but if I try to log in to the new account (or change user) I get a
pop up window from the Welcome Screen (which has the icon for the new
account) saying I can't login to the account because it can't find the
account files (or something like that). When I look in Explorer in
Documents and Settings, there is no folder for the new account. However, if
I reboot my PC and then look in Documents and Settings, two folders have
been added...
New_User and COMPUTERNAME.New_User
....and I can log in to the account, but the Win XP menu is missing items
(Internet Explorer and Outlook, for example) and the left hand side is
empty! Also, when I try to run any software, I get an error (In Outlook XP
2002, it tries to reinstall and then says it can't start) and the desktop
isn't the default one normally associated with a new account (i.e. green
fields, blue sky, Windows XP tour, etc.)
Any help would be appreciated.
Peter
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