Re: Admin can't 'see' or access a User account

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:21:11 -0600

It sounds like the user account was deleted but the user profile remains.
Use Doug's advice to see how to take ownership and give yourself permissions
to the folders as an administrator. You can use the command net users to see
a list of users on the computer. --- Steve

"andyed" <andyed.1z6a41@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:andyed.1z6a41@pcbanter.net...
>
> Long story, but a friend of mine has been and tinkered with the settings
> on my PC (without my knowledge) to 'hide' and deny access to one of the
> accounts on my PC - even from the Administrator. If I go into My
> Computer/Documents and Settings I can see the account folder in
> question but get the 'Access Denied' dialogue box when I try to open
> it. However in the My Computer 'home screen' the account is not shown
> alongside the others on the PC.
> Does anyone have any idea what this friend has done? Because I'm
> stumped, and for various reasons I can't ask him.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
> --
> andyed

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