April is quite some time ago and if you have installed allot of software
since then - it may cause you some problems.

But, so long as you are absolutely sure that you haven't changed you're
user password for this account since then, it's probably safe enough to
replace it.

Again, because of the age of this .bak file, you may well find that
having sorted out one 'glitch', others appear. This can be caused due
to discrepancies between an installed application's registry settings
conflicting with it's present configuration.

Have you tried creating a new user account?

This was the answer another user found that sorted out a similar problem
(can't quite fully remember what it was but, it was some part of Windows
not displaying properly and on creating a new user account the problem
was no longer).

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Méndez" <zorro.mendez******.com> wrote in message
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> "Tim Meddick" <timmeddick@gawab.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:O%23fT20Y$JHA.4984@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> 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.
>