On Feb 11, 12:34 am, SGR <2syl...******.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Nehmo;904865 Wrote:
>
>
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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 newuseras administrator. I don't know what else they did.[/color]
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> > Now I have a newuseras 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 previoususerthat 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 oldusersystem.[/color]
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> > The Control Panel > add or removeuseraccounts 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]
>
> 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.
>
> --
> SGR[/color]

I can log on as administrator, but there's only one restore point, and
that's from today well after the problem event a few days ago.