Guest ddt Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 I am sorry if I am posting this twice the first time something odd happened and then I didn't see it listed, so I am sending it again Please --- I hope you can help this grandmother of 10 to undo what I did. I bought my computer from my work back in 2003. It came with Windows 2000 Professional. Previous to my getting into Users and Passwords today -- on the Control Panel I used to be able to turn my computer on, and everything would come up on the screen without putting a password in. Well due to my daughter and her small children (my grandchildren), planning to come and live with me. I thought that I would fix my computer so that it required a password to get into it. This is the first time I ever attemped to do this. If I can get things back to the way they used to be, maybe I will just put a lock on the door of the room I keep the computer in instead. I am so sorry I got into what I did. I just want to undo what I did. Well here is what I did ---- I went to the computers Control Panel & I got into Users and Passwords and clicked on User Name- Administrator Group Name- Administrators and clicked Set Password. I made-up a password. Then instead of selecting Shut Down my computer I selected Log off Administrator. Then when I got back on my computer it brought up a two boxes, one already had the word User in it & the second box was for my password. I put that in but could not get into my computer. Then I changed the Word in the first box to read Administrator and then put my password in the second box and I got into my computer, but then found that My Desktop was **very different**. I also found that all of the documents I had previously over the years saved in My Documents folder were gone, there were a lot of them. Then after trying several different things I finnaly found that if I Right Clicked on the Start Button, then selected Explore All Users ... (I had never gotten into that before). Well in getting into that I discovered that there was a *Default User* and a *User folder*. The User folder is the one that has all of my documents in it. If I could somehow fix it so that when I log into my computer I can go right into the User Folder and NOT the Default User Folder that is what I want. I hope this can be done .... I think it can because I found that if I go to the Control Panel and select the Systems Icon instead of the Users and Passwords icon and then select the User Profiles tab it shows that I have two User Profiles stored on my computer. They both have the same number but after the \ one says Administrator and the other one says User. I am sure that the one that has the word User after the \ is the Profile I want. How can I fix it so that I can get back into the profile I want. I am sure the profile, with the word User after the \ ---- is the one I had previously before --- I messed everything up today. I am sure it was the one that was in use -- back when my computer just turned on by its self -- without a password. I am sure of this ---Because the one that says Administrator after the \ is much smaller it has a lot less KB's. I hope you can help this Grandmother who will never get into the control panel again and mess with things that I should not be messing with. Thank-you, and may God Bless and Give you a Wonderful Christmas if you can just help me. Acturally I Want you to have a Wonderful Christmas even if you can't help me, but I hope you can. kst -- kst
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