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!HELP! NEED HELP ACCESSING ACCOUNTS ON XP HOME EDITION
Logging in as Administrator should allow you to get
access to your folder. To do this you are going to have to add the Administraor account to the Welcome Screen, to do this involves accessing the Registry, so if you dont feel confident please dont try this. Firstly you need to open regedit. So click on Start Run then type regedit You need to make the following changes. Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t Name: Administrator Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1 display on userlist Reboot and you will see Administrator as one of you logon choices. If you logon to a normal user account and want to switch to the builtin account: Hope this works for you. Thanks Darren Bolton -----Original Message----- Until a few nights ago this computer (home computer) was working fine. On it we had set up 5 users accounts (one for each member of our family). My own user account was set up with a password and in the security tab, I clicked to make my files/folders private. Since then my brother somehow deleted some startup files that Windows XP needs to startup and run All the files and folders that were still in my user account are still there, but I reinstalled Win XP over itself (so I can get XP to run) and now I cant access my files and folders in my old account because my old user account doesnt show up on the Welcome screen when XP starts - but when I go into my new account and go to c:\documents and settings folder, I can see my old account folder there, but cant access it cause i somehow need to enter my old password (which i do remember).... Please help any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated - If you could please email me info on how to fix this at as I may not watch this post that often Thank you in advance, Tom . |
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