"Nehmo" <blad54******.com> wrote in message
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> On Feb 9, 2:16 pm, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:[color=green]
> > "Nehmo" <bla...******.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >[color=darkred]
> > > [This is my second post on the same subject. The first thread died][/color]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > 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]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > 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]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > 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]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > The Control Panel > add or remove user accounts is useless. I only
> > > have two icons there[/color]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > 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[/color][/color]
damage[color=blue][color=green]
> > 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.[/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.[/color]



If there was a power failure...
it can do more damage than someone on drugs...


You will probably have to re-setup your user profiles.

Though chkdsk /f should have run after the system rebooted...
you may want to try it again.


As to the person on crack...
kick them out!
I once made the mistake of taking in a crack-addict for a few days.
She was so pathetic...I had to kick her out.
It was horrible.
I can't think of too many things in this world worse than crack.
You need to get that person far away from you.