Re: Documents and Settings Folder - User Name

From: Scott Sokolich (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:30:08 -0800

Ronnie:
I finally figured it out. What I did was to log on as the
built in administrator as you said. In Safe mode I went to
Control panel, System, advanced, users, settings and
copied everything over to a new name then deleted the old.
I rebooted and went into the registry I modified every
entry that had the old name reference to the new name and
it worked like a charm. I still have not been able to
recover my deleted files though. I even got file-saver and
ran the program and none of them came up. But anyway,
thanks for the help!

Scott Sokolich
>-----Original Message-----
>Scott wrote:
>> Ronnie:
>> Thanks again for the info. Last night I printed out the
>> knowledge base articles that you suggested and went
>> through each. I was able to get the files copied over
to a
>> new user but I could not delete the old mispelled folder
>> because it said it was a "windows system folder and
cannot
>> be deleted". I went into safe mode and tried to take
>> ownership rights and was unable to do it because I could
>> not get to the security tab on the folder. How do you do
>> that? Somehow though I still lost some data in the
>> process. All my settings for outlook were gone and all
the
>> files like .doc and .xls files disappeared. I did a
system
>> recovery but could not get back to it's original state
so
>> I must have messed something up when I copied the stuff
>> over. I reinstalled office and got outlook up and
running
>> but will have to go to my back up for some of my files.
I
>> think most are gone though.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Scott
>
>
>Scott
>
>Not sure what might have gone wrong if you followed the
instructions to the
>letter. Are you sure those documents are gone? You might
want to check the
>folders where they were stored again after loggong on
with the built-in
>administrator account.
>
>
>--
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows Shell/User
>
>Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
>http://www.dts-l.org
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>
>
>.
>

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