[quote=Nehmo;904865][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?[/quote]


Can you sign on as administrator? I don't know if this will work for you or not, but a friend of mine had a bit of a similar situation a week or so ago (no drugs involved though! :cool:) and after trying several different things with no luck, we finally tried system restore, although we didn't have much hope--and it fixed it. Worth a try and dead easy.