Lost! System Administrator
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Lost! System Administrator
W2000 Pro: Normal shutdown last night, but on boot this am, 'Cannot find personal settings'. Checking file names, the 'administrator' folder in 'Documents and settings' had been renamed 'administrator.bak'.
I am in the secondary profile at this time but with no admin rights. Any ideas please?
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I am in the secondary profile at this time but with no admin rights. Any ideas please?
Trend Micro 'House Call' shows no problems on my system discs
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Thanks for the reply, Mike. While I was away I have laboriously rebuilt the administrator system with copying etc from the old folder, but it left me with having to rebuild all the email accounts, import the address book etc. A right pain. The problem I had was that without being able to log-in as 'admin' I could do very little.
More or less sorted now, so I'll stick with what I have. Any ideas what happened?
More or less sorted now, so I'll stick with what I have. Any ideas what happened?
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It's a while since I dabbled with Win 2k, but don't you have a "BOAC" username with Admin privileges, and a separate "Admin" with its own password?
Under Win XP I was advised not to use the "Admin" account as the primary user, for the very reason that you've just found out.
When I deleted the "Keith" account on my old PC in error a couple of years ago, I then took to being "Admin" because there was no option. That gave me access to all my stuff. I just couldn't recreate the "Keith" account without laborious effort (which I didn't bother to do).
Under Win XP I was advised not to use the "Admin" account as the primary user, for the very reason that you've just found out.
When I deleted the "Keith" account on my old PC in error a couple of years ago, I then took to being "Admin" because there was no option. That gave me access to all my stuff. I just couldn't recreate the "Keith" account without laborious effort (which I didn't bother to do).