Will Someone Please Help Me?

[Gary]

Please, someone, I really need some HELP!

When I try to access user accounts in my contol panel, I
get a message that says "wrong number of arguments or
invalid property assignment".

When I right-click on My Computer, go to Manage, and then
to Local Users & Groups, Local Users & Groups is X-ed
out, and when I click on the x-ed out Users & Groups, it
says 'unable to access computer: the error was bad syntax'

What the heck has happened? How do I fix this? Can I fix
this?

Thank you!
Gary

my computer: IBM ThinkPad R32
my OS: XP Professional

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Anything useful in your event logs?

 

[Gary]

I'm not sure I know what those are... if can you direct
me to them, I'll take a look and get back to you.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Control panel, administrative tools

I'm not sure I know what those are... if can you direct
me to them, I'll take a look and get back to you.

 

[Gary]

Thanks. Found it.... but, as much as I hate to admit it,
most of what I've seen there is way over my head. Can you
give me some advice as to what to look for, etc.?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

The red ones are errors ;-)

Thanks. Found it.... but, as much as I hate to admit it,
most of what I've seen there is way over my head. Can you
give me some advice as to what to look for, etc.?

 

[Gary]

ok, now what types of things do you think I should be
looking for? There are a bunch of odd-looking error
messages, going back quite a way in time....

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hard to say - look at your system log to see what looks relevant, and post
back here....