"Tim Meddick" <timmeddick@gawab.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> I'm not sure where exactly you are getting your 'ntuser.bak' file from?

The 'ntuser.bak' file is right there in my profile folder and is at plain
eyesight, not a hidden file (and so is 'Ntuser.dat'). It's probably not
from a previous installation cause it's dated June 11/09 and I did the last
repair installation on June 3rd though it was not a completed but it worked.

Fact is, I had done a repair-installation to install SP3 included on the CD
on April 19th, a day went by and it gave no Activation period so I didn't
give it much thought, I shut the system down and used the other system for
some 40 days without booting the repaired system, and when I did, it was
disabled without the possibility of activation so I started another
repair-installation and about half the way of copying files from the CD it
would restart on several attempts. And since the OS was installed on the E:\
drive and I had letter D:\ available, I tried changing the OS letter to D:\
on the Registry from a UBCD PE before I tried another repair installation,
after that attempted another reinstallation and it also failed, I then used
the PE CD and restored the registry to April 19th with the Registry Restore
Wizard application included in the CD, and that helped me logon normally to
the "half repaired" system with a renewed 31 day count for Activation.

This was on June 3rd and the 'ntuser.dat' file is from June 11th, so I
suppose it may be safe to use it? I could change/switch the ntuser file
extensions from the other installation, but my doubts are; if switching the
file extensions can solve the problem, can that restore the web view? Is
there any risk of losing access to the user account?

I am also considering using the Control Panel\System Tool to copy my profile
to a new account, (obviously minus the ntuser.dat file).


Thanks for the extensive information.