On Feb 9, 2:16 pm, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> "Nehmo" <bla...******.com> wrote in message
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> news:e76fa770-80e4-4a7c-b550-5cf8899cbc4f@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
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> > [This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died][/color]
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> > 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.[/color]
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> > 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)[/color]
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> > 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.[/color]
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> > The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
> > have two icons there[/color]
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> > So is there anyway to return to the original condition? How can I
> > recover the missing users?[/color]
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> 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.
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> 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.[/color]

She was on Xanax, crashing off crack, and perhaps a little methadone.
She remembered the user password combination she created, and seh is
reasonably knowledgeable with Windows OSs.
But as I understand, the real problem started with the power outage.
Oh, I didn't provide the drugs, but I'm not above doing certain drugs.
Yes, I understand the drugs were irrelevant to the os problem, but
sometimes I add some personal info to bring the question into the real
world.
--
Nehmo