Re: User Account confusion...Help!
If this is XP Home then boot to Safe Mode and access the account called
Administrator. Make your changes from there.
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Xandros
"Corky" <tc99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns99B9159443076floookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was screwing around with the xp user account setup and screwed something
up. Basically I think I unintentionally created another administrator
account. So now I seem to have lost all my personal settings: my IE
favorites, desktop icons, Outlook express settings etc. When I boot up it
offers me only the new user account as a Log in option. I tried system
restore but that doesnt seem to be working at the moment.I can see all my
items are still in a folder marked Administrator in the Documents and
Settings Folder...so they are not lost. I tried deleting the new user
account but Windows won't let me do that. Is there a way to restore all my
previous settings other than using system restore?
TIA
Corky
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