"lula" <lula@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:627F51C1-B8B7-42FB-85B8-F1B51806D469@microsoft.com...
> Hello, one of my coworkers I work with turned on his computer and typed in
> his username and password and it came up, but like if it was the first
> time
> that he logged onto that computer.
> When I went to see the local users and gropus, I have Administrator,
> Maintenance Director (this is his username) and Guest. Everything seems to
> be
> fine there and in fact I could log on with his regular username and
> password,
> but for some reason it was like he never logged on before.
> He does have access now to his email and internet as I set up the internet
> again and his email in Outlook (although he has set up a cox email aco****
> and it wasnt set up to save messages on the server so he only has new
> emails
> that are coming now, not old emails) but the main issue now is that all
> his
> documents are lost.
>
> If there is a way to recover his documents and his previous emails it
> would
> be great.
> Any ideas on what I can do?
> Thank you very much for all your help i n advance.
>
> lula

Your coworker is skating on very thin ice if he does not back up his
important documents to an independent medium regularly, e.g. once a week.
This time he's lucky but next time he might lose the lot. A 2.5" hard disk
in an external USB case is a low-cost but highly effective backup medium.

To give him access to his previous files you need to log on as Administrator
and grant him ownership to his profile folder in c:\Documents and Settings.
Click Start / Help and look for help on Ownership if unsure how to do this.
By the way, you're posting in a WinXP newsgroup. There is a dedicated
Windows 2000 newsgroup that would be a better place for this question.