Re: Changed from corporate workgroup to home net, now cannot logon
From: D.Currie (dmbcurrie.nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/31/04
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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:38:43 -0600
Do a search in Help for "take ownership" and that may solve the problem.
"Keith Hedley" <KeithHedley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5925283D-BA0E-4826-833D-E5E96C949992@microsoft.com...
> Colin, thanks again... but until I get the admin privileges back on my
> machine I can't get to my files. My problem is that when I followed the
> wizard to set up a home network it somehow trashed my logon password. All
> I
> have done is manage to set up a new account so at least I can get the PC
> up
> and running. But because the new user account was not set up by the admin
> who "owns" the PC I cannot open any of the folders/files created under my
> old
> user name. When I graduated from the culinary academy where I received
> the
> notebook as a part of my tuition, they should have realized this kind of
> problem would crop up. I'll be on the phone to them Monday... and BTW,
> the
> XP operating system should not have let me set up a home network without
> at
> least a warning that changing my settings could cause something like this!
>
> "Colin Nash [MVP]" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Keith Hedley" <KeithHedley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9BA06BD5-9BB5-4FC4-B3AE-FF7E192DCC1E@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks for your rapid reply Colin. I was about to post a reply to my
>> > first
>> > message with a "never mind..." because I just found out about getting
>> > in
>> > via
>> > the Safe Mode. I added a new user so I at least can get logged on.
>> > But
>> > as
>> > it's a new account I can't get to my data until the Admin folks at the
>> > school
>> > I graduated from unlock it for me.
>> >
>>
>>
>> I guess you managed to get into the built-in Administrator account and
>> the
>> password was blank? Lucky break, there :) ...
>>
>> You can get access to your files from the C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\(name
>> of
>> your old profile) folder, by following these instructions while logged on
>> with an account that is a member of the Administrators group:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech
>>
>>
>> --
>> Colin Nash
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware
>>
>>
>>
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