reenieroo
March 27th 04, 03:42 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm running Windows XP Media Edition (home), factory
>installed, on a new computer. We've been accessing all
>our programs and documents using the system installed
>administrator acct & did not create any user accounts.
>We discovered the hard way that as soon as you create the
>first user account, the administrator account disappears
>along with everything in the my documents, favorites,
>programs, etc. I was able to perform a system restore to
>bring back the administrator account & all our important
>data.
>I now need to know how to set up the first user account
>without having the same thing happen & losing everything
>(programs, my docs, etc.)
>
>I'm also running Norton & when the Windows XP
>administrator account disappears, I lose the Norton
>adminstrator account & don't have the privileges to
>perform key Norton functionalities.
>
>Thanks in advance for assistance!!
>.
>
>I'm running Windows XP Media Edition (home), factory
>installed, on a new computer. We've been accessing all
>our programs and documents using the system installed
>administrator acct & did not create any user accounts.
>We discovered the hard way that as soon as you create the
>first user account, the administrator account disappears
>along with everything in the my documents, favorites,
>programs, etc. I was able to perform a system restore to
>bring back the administrator account & all our important
>data.
>I now need to know how to set up the first user account
>without having the same thing happen & losing everything
>(programs, my docs, etc.)
>
>I'm also running Norton & when the Windows XP
>administrator account disappears, I lose the Norton
>adminstrator account & don't have the privileges to
>perform key Norton functionalities.
>
>Thanks in advance for assistance!!
>.
>