Re: My solution

From: Shenan T. Stanley (shenans_tiredofspam_at_my_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/25/03 

Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:05:50 -0500

So.. You did what everyone told you to do..

But how did you access your files? Did it ask for a username/password when
you mapped to your computer using the network or did you have open shares
where EVERYONE had read rights at the very least?

Most people would not have an option to map to their computer - because on
one that doesn't already have an obvious security hole - you shouldn't be
able to access your old files..

"Amy" <> wrote in message :
> I'm just following up here on this problem. I never did
> find out what the cause was, but I could not logon to XP
> with any combination of passwords. I wasn't able to logon
> by pressing "control alt delete" and using the
> Administrator account that way either. I never
> passworded any of my accounts so I don't know where it
> came from. I tried everything I could think of, even
> NTAccess special demo to see if there was a password on
> the Guest account. There was not. What I finally had to
> do, even though everyone in any kind of a support capcity
> told me that I would just have to reformat and lose all
> my information, I installed Windows2000 on my laptop and
> accessed my files that way, copying them off to CD & then
> reformatted it, restoring it back to the way it was when
> I bought it. Just an FYI in case anyone else you hear of
> runs into same problem that I had.
>
> Thanks, Amy
>

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