Mistakenly deleted User Account

[Guest Ushnell]

I decided to edit the User Accounts in the Control Panel to just change the

original owners name Edwin to my name and though that the System would

transfer those settings to my account so I deleted the original owners

account; what a big mistake!

 

I tried to solve this by creating the same user account under that same name

but the System creates a folder in the Documents and Setting named Edwin.000

with it's fresh setting of desktop wallpaper image, my documents folder

contents and Start menu items that are the default settings.

 

One thing that I saw that makes me feel lucky though is that in the System

Properties where User Profiles is, the system considers it as "account

unknown" with information of the user account's size on the disk.

 

so my question is how do I revert the settings to make the system know that

user profile still exists so it will allow me to re-create an account under

that same name to again and utilize the settings that were applied to it.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who has any help.

 

Ushnell

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Mistakenly deleted User Account

 

This article may help.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324734

 

 

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"Ushnell" wrote:

>I decided to edit the User Accounts in the Control Panel to just change the

> original owners name Edwin to my name and though that the System would

> transfer those settings to my account so I deleted the original owners

> account; what a big mistake!

>

> I tried to solve this by creating the same user account under that same

> name

> but the System creates a folder in the Documents and Setting named

> Edwin.000

> with it's fresh setting of desktop wallpaper image, my documents folder

> contents and Start menu items that are the default settings.

>

> One thing that I saw that makes me feel lucky though is that in the System

> Properties where User Profiles is, the system considers it as "account

> unknown" with information of the user account's size on the disk.

>

> so my question is how do I revert the settings to make the system know

> that

> user profile still exists so it will allow me to re-create an account

> under

> that same name to again and utilize the settings that were applied to it.

>

> Thanks in advance to anyone who has any help.

>

> Ushnell