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Guest evestigatus
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I had a corrupt OS and had to restore my Windows XP. When I rebooted it came

back to a default user name. I can still access all of the files for all of

the previous users but I can't figure out how to restore our old user names

and get all of the settings back. When I try, it creates a new user name

with a .PC extension.

 

This is especially troubling with MS Outlook because I don't know how to get

to all of our old email, calendar, task, and address book data. Anyone out

there know what to do to get this back to the way it used to be?

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Guest John Wunderlich
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Re: Windows XP Restore - restoring user names

 

=?Utf-8?B?ZXZlc3RpZ2F0dXM=?= <evestigatus@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote in news:61042EB0-7A3A-451F-BA08-AB4B7B2B9B61@microsoft.com:

> I had a corrupt OS and had to restore my Windows XP. When I

> rebooted it came back to a default user name. I can still access

> all of the files for all of the previous users but I can't figure

> out how to restore our old user names and get all of the settings

> back. When I try, it creates a new user name with a .PC

> extension.

>

> This is especially troubling with MS Outlook because I don't know

> how to get to all of our old email, calendar, task, and address

> book data. Anyone out there know what to do to get this back to

> the way it used to be?

>

 

You might want to try this:

 

"How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP"

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473/en-us>

 

"Windows XP Problems if Your Profile Is Damaged"

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326688/en-us>

 

HTH,

John


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