Re: Corrupted WindowsXP Admin profile

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 07/10/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:00:13 -0700

Logon to your backup admin account and run System Restore. To logon to
Administrator in XP Home, press F8 during boot process and select a safe
mode. In XP Pro press CADD at the Welcome Screen and enter your
installation password. 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
trptscott <rqm@planetquake.com> wrote:
> Turned on my computer this morning, took forever to load
> (the screen froze on the blue-loading-profile screen),
> and then windows loaded a default profile and said the
> profile I was trying to use had become corrupted (worked
> fine last night).
>
> Any ideas? Help? Do I really have to go back and create
> another profile?  Anyway for a non-novice Windows user to
> repair the file?

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