Re: User Account is GONE!



I am not aware of any setting within XP that deletes a user account without the user's knowledge or consent. If you're sure that your account is really gone, someone with access to your computer - including malware - is the culprit.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

alwayzzlearning wrote:
Hi - shut down last night as if everything was okay. Today I have no user account for me. My other account is there, but not mine. I tried doing a recovery to 2 days ago, and mine is still not there. It just vanished. Any thoughts? Also, even before the recovery when I had to log in under the other account, there was no past info in outlook express....no old files, none of the past weeks emails...nothing. Just todays email for that account.
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