!HELP! NEED HELP ACCESSING ACCOUNTS ON XP HOME EDITION

From: DarrenBolton (darren.bolton_at_sunderland.gov.uk)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:31:10 -0700

Logging in as Administrator should allow you to get
access to your folder. To do this you are going to have
to add the Administraor account to the Welcome Screen, to
do this involves accessing the Registry, so if you dont
feel confident please dont try this.

Firstly you need to open regedit.

So click on Start >> Run >> then type regedit

You need to make the following changes.

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Name: Administrator
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 display on userlist

Reboot and you will see Administrator as one of you logon
choices. If you logon to a normal user account and want
to switch to the builtin account:

Hope this works for you.

Thanks
Darren Bolton

>-----Original Message-----
>Until a few nights ago this computer (home computer) was
>working fine. On it we had set up 5 users accounts (one
>for each member of our family). My own user account was
>set up with a password and in the security tab, I
clicked
>to make my files/folders private.
>
>Since then my brother somehow deleted some startup files
>that Windows XP needs to startup and run
>
>All the files and folders that were still in my user
>account are still there, but I reinstalled Win XP over
>itself (so I can get XP to run) and now I cant access my
>files and folders in my old account because my old user
>account doesnt show up on the Welcome screen when XP
>starts - but when I go into my new account and go to
>c:\documents and settings folder, I can see my old
>account folder there, but cant access it cause i somehow
>need to enter my old password (which i do remember)....
>Please help :) any help that you can give would be
>greatly appreciated -
>
>If you could please email me info on how to fix this at
>ftballbubbabear@aol.com as I may not watch this post
that
>often
>
>Thank you in advance,
>Tom
>.
>

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