Re: Deleted all administrative priv profiles! Help!



"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

kurtsgirl wrote:
To start: my user profile wouldn't load so I was using the "default
user profile" everytime I logged on. The default had admin privs,
so I changed my daughter's profile to have admin privs, and removed
them from my user profile (the one that failed to load). Don't know
why I needed to do that! What happened as a result of those actions
was disappearance of the guest user profile (icon is just gone),
disappearance of my failing-to-load-user-profile, and with that all
of my files disappeared, all of the programs I used on the
failing-to-load-profile also disappeared. Perhaps making things
worse, I tried to use system restore to restore to last night,
which was before I did any of this. The result of using system
restore was not to restore the user profiles that had disappeared,
but what did happen was my daughter's profile was restored to a
"limited access" profile instead of an administrator's profile.
What I am left with, if you can follow along here, is only ONE
profile and it is a "limited access" profile. So I cannot even try
to "undo" the system restore since I am not logged on as an
administrator. Help!

I am running Windows XP which a computer "expert" (read here
*former* friend) installed somehow in place of the factory Windows
Vista install.

Windows XP what?
- Home?
- Professional?
- Media Center Edition?

Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 3.


Log in as the actual administrator.

Boot into safe mode, try there - the user administrator may not have a
password. If it does - (it's not blank) - come back and we can show you how
to blank that password.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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