Lost User profile and encrypted files.

From: Adam Warr (adam.warr@ntlworld.com)
Date: 11/21/02 

From: "Adam Warr" <adam.warr@ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:58:53 -0800

Appeal for help. My PC crashed during booting the other
day and the defailt (Adam Warr) account was corrupted -
any attempts to do a system restore failed, so I created a
new account (Adam Warr II).

I have made a backup of the security settings from the
original account but cannot import them into the new
account, thus rendering some encrypted files unreadable.

Using a DOS prompt, I was able to ascertain the original
encryption key and account that was created and trace
a .dll with that key number.

Can I somehow import this into my account to access these
files or am I totally screwed?

Adam Warr

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