Windows XP Reinstallation User Account Issue

From: pcarter (pcarter@mountain.mv.com)
Date: 01/30/03 

From: "pcarter" <pcarter@mountain.mv.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:11:32 -0800

Hi Donal,

I had the same thing... when you boot up you will notice
that if you have the option set to select an operating
system you have two (at least) listed now. The one you
boot with has no access to the software programs. Try
booting with the other one (the one that had the problems
which caused you to need to reinstall). If it is like
mine it will boot up now. You will have access to
everything again.

I am going to try and delete the new version of the
operating system through the OS setuo menu. I'm hoping
that will take care of the extra folders with the
name.name labels.

Maybe this will help....?

>-----Original Message-----
>While attempting to reinstall Windows XP to repair
>possible corrupted or damaged files, I chose not to
>completely format my hard drive and install Windows,
>rather I chose to just re-install Windows itself. After
>assigning the PC a name and listing the user accounts
for
>this PC, I encountered a major issue upon logging in. I
>have two user accounts, which are the same two accounts
I
>had upon my initial installation of Windows XP, and
>logging in to either of the two gives me no access
>whatsoever to the programs & files on my hard drive. By
>performing a basic search, I can see that everything is
>still on my hard drive but I can't access it because I
>keep getting an error that reads: "this program has not
>been installed for this user account"? I also noticed
>that under the list of users, I have the two original
>names as well as two additional names. The two
additional
>names are the same as the originals, only they are
>followed by a ".(name of PC). For example, If I named
my
>PC "Downstairs PC" and one of my user accounts
was "Bob",
>There would be both a "Bob" and a "Bob.Downstairs PC"??
>I am apparently being logged on as the "user name.PC
>name" because when I look at the documents and settings
>folder, there is no linkage to any of the installed
>programs. However, if I perform a search of the
programs
>under one of the two user names (without the PC name at
>the end) All of the programs are listed but I can't
>access them?
>
>Could someone please help? I have several documents and
>e-mail contacts that I need to have access to soon!
>
>Thanks,
>Donal Dickens
>.
>