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savak
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Strange one this.

I upgraded(?) from W2K to XP and had a error during the upgrade that I resolved but under XP the main user (Administrator) does appear at the login screen but the profile is in the Documents & Settings folder. There are also other users with their own profiles and one of them disappeared a well from the login screen. Fortunately I had another administration profile that works.

Questions

1. How can I reinstate the 'lost' profiles?

2. Can a 'lost' profile be imported into a new user setup?

Any help is welcome.

Graeme

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  • 2 weeks later...

Having played around lately I've gone back to the old style logon (because the wife doesn't like the XP logon!) I can now get back to my old Administrator user profile and all is well.

But I still cannot figure out how the 'normal' XP logon doesn't off the Administrator profile. If I try to create it I'm informed it exsists!

This has been a bit of a pain is it possible to go back to W2K (uninstall the upgrade to XP) or should I start again by backing up and reformatting with XP?

Any advice/views welcome.

Graeme

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