User setup

[Guest]

I recently had to reformat and reinstall my windows.
When I did, I had to recreate the user profiles for my wife and I. Before
it would let me, I had to create another (I set one up during the XP install
process) administrator account. Now, some how, when I look under documents
and settings I see a user for my wife, one for Papa, and one for Papa_2.
However, when booting up, I only see Administrator, wife, and Papa accounts
to sign into. The same when I go into the control panel.
1) I would like to delete the extra Papa account that shows up under
Documents and settings, and
2) be able to copy back from my external harddrive the favorites and such
that I have saved to the new accounts in documetns and settings. It will let
me do that for my wife, but not for me.

Please help and TIA.
Papa

 

[tpantazi]

I recently had to reformat and reinstall my windows.
When I did, I had to recreate the user profiles for my wife and I. Before
it would let me, I had to create another (I set one up during the XP install
process) administrator account. Now, some how, when I look under documents
and settings I see a user for my wife, one for Papa, and one for Papa_2.
However, when booting up, I only see Administrator, wife, and Papa accounts
to sign into. The same when I go into the control panel.
1) I would like to delete the extra Papa account that shows up under
Documents and settings, and
2) be able to copy back from my external harddrive the favorites and such
that I have saved to the new accounts in documetns and settings. It will let
me do that for my wife, but not for me.

Please help and TIA.
Papa

My guess and I am not an expert, is that the Papa_2 is your new
account and the Papa is the old original account. You may be able to
copy from the external drive to the Papa2 account. Check the dates
when those folders were created. Is the Papa one from before you
reinstalled? If so, that means it is the old account.

 

[jsheddan]

I recently had to reformat and reinstall my windows.
When I did, I had to recreate the user profiles for my wife and I.
Before
it would let me, I had to create another (I set one up during the XP
install
process) administrator account. Now, some how, when I look under
documents
and settings I see a user for my wife, one for Papa, and one for
Papa_2.
However, when booting up, I only see Administrator, wife, and Papa
accounts
to sign into. The same when I go into the control panel.
1) I would like to delete the extra Papa account that shows up under
Documents and settings, and
2) be able to copy back from my external harddrive the favorites and
such
that I have saved to the new accounts in documetns and settings. It
will let
me do that for my wife, but not for me.

Please help and TIA.
Papa

Log in as Administrator, open the Control Panel, then User Accounts.
Check the access rights on Papa_2 (I suspect this account has
administrator rights, therefore limited users do not have rights to
delete or edit the account in any way). Only an Administrator can
delete it or change it. Hope this helps.