Re: Checking "root" files to make sure they are correct

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 01/08/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:31:21 -0700

"Jeff Parker" <parkerj@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:0eba01c2b63e$278cc640$8df82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA02...
> WARNING WARNING don't do this if you're running XP Home.
> I just did and the subject user account has disappeared!!
>

What subject account ?
control userpasswords2 is not unsafe, but
leaving it when a user account has been
modified to no longer be a member of either
Users or Administrators or Guests is hazardous. 

--
Roger
> >-----Original Message-----
> >If you do a new install all old accounts are gone.
> >If you do an upgrade/repair install no new accounts
> >get created, only the previous accounts remain.
> >
> >Try start / run
> >control userpasswords2
> >
> >--
> >Roger
> >
> >"Lori Ann Kuiper" <loriann@netnitco.net> wrote in message
> >news:u8bwc7ssCHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> >> I have had some trouble logging onto XP Professional
> in the past, and when
> >> reinstalling at different times, I set up different
> passwords.
> >>
> >> Is there any way I can check my "root" files or where
> ever XP would store
> >> the user/login info, to make sure that there are not
> duplicate entries
> >> there?  If yes, could you please tell me which files
> to check and what
> >> should be listed there?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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