"Nehmo" <blad54******.com> wrote in message
news:e76fa770-80e4-4a7c-b550-5cf8899cbc4f@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> [This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died]
>
> I had this Vista Home Basic machine working okay, but the power went
> out and then another person who was high used the machine. They named
> a new user as administrator. I don't know what else they did.
>
> Now I have a new user as administrator and the previous users are
> gone. I still see evidence of them in the file tree but the old
> programs are gone and the documents are buried in C > Users > Admin
> (that was a name of a previous user that I had named when I first got
> the machine)
>
> I've gradually installed some of my old programs and I'm currently
> just rebuilding everything, but it would be a lot easier if I could
> revert to the old user system.
>
> The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
> have two icons there
>
> So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
> recover the missing users?[/color]


It's important to know which drugs the "person who was high" was on.

Depending on which substance was being abused...the way to un-do the damage
will vary.

If alcohol, then the miscreant probably did something illogical,
if he was "barbed-out" then the lazy approach to mischief is likely.

Stimulants cause totally different types of problems...
generally involving a lot of effort...but not much actually done.

Maybe you need to put a password on the machine...
or hide your drugs better next time.