Thank you very much to both of you. I will try it and let you guys know.
Sorry, I actually couldnt find the WIN2000 group but now I see it.

thank you again for your quick answers.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "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.
>
>
>