Guest sunprince Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 I am not sure what to call this or what the trouble is so I will try to give every detail that I can. I have two user accounts. Account W, Account P, Both have administrator status. And up until just this morning both worked fine. User account W is set up with work related shortcut links, and background on desktop. User account P is set up with personal links and background on desktop. This morning my work related user account is somehow not accessible. It was just fine yesterday. But something happened between the time that I last logged in yesterday and today that made user account W quit working. Both user accounts appear on the log in selector screen and I can log in to either just fine. But the desktop links and background have all disappeared from User account W. And it seems to be a default background screen with only a few shared links for all users appearing. My user account P is unchanged with not apparent problems. When I log into the user account P and open up the "all users" folder in Windows Explorer to see if the folder information for User account W has been somehow deleted, it is still there including all links in the desktop folder still in place. And all the links appear to be in each respective desktop folder. But the screen that appears after logging into user account W does not match what is in the folder of the same name. As I mentioned it seems to be displaying another user account with default and a few shared links. The information in the desktop links folder for User account W is not being accessed or recognized at log in, even though the desktop folder for User Account W is still appearing unchanged in Windows explorer. -- sunprince Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest Ron Badour Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: User account not available Try doing a system restore to yesterday's date or earlier. If you don't know how to do a restore, check the help file for details. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2008 "sunprince" <sunprince.3b34uy@nntp.nospam.local> wrote in message news:sunprince.3b34uy@nntp.nospam.local... > > I am not sure what to call this or what the trouble is so I will try to > give every detail that I can. > > I have two user accounts. Account W, Account P, Both have administrator > status. And up until just this morning both worked fine. User account W > is set up with work related shortcut links, and background on desktop. > User account P is set up with personal links and background on desktop. > > This morning my work related user account is somehow not accessible. It > was just fine yesterday. But something happened between the time that I > last logged in yesterday and today that made user account W quit > working. Both user accounts appear on the log in selector screen and I > can log in to either just fine. But the desktop links and background > have all disappeared from User account W. And it seems to be a default > background screen with only a few shared links for all users appearing. > > My user account P is unchanged with not apparent problems. When I log > into the user account P and open up the "all users" folder in Windows > Explorer to see if the folder information for User account W has been > somehow deleted, it is still there including all links in the desktop > folder still in place. And all the links appear to be in each respective > desktop folder. But the screen that appears after logging into user > account W does not match what is in the folder of the same name. As I > mentioned it seems to be displaying another user account with default > and a few shared links. > > The information in the desktop links folder for User account W is not > being accessed or recognized at log in, even though the desktop folder > for User Account W is still appearing unchanged in Windows explorer. > > > -- > sunprince > Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway >
Guest sunprince Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 Re: User account not available Ron, Thank you very much. IT WORKED! It just goes to show how ignorant I am about windows or computers for that matter. I was not even aware that there was a systems restore feature like that. Anyhow, it worked. I now have it back. I was very concerned about this. Thank you very much. -- sunprince Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest Ron Badour Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 Re: User account not available Glad to have helped. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2008 "sunprince" <sunprince.3b5lqy@nntp.nospam.local> wrote in message news:sunprince.3b5lqy@nntp.nospam.local... > > Ron, > > Thank you very much. IT WORKED! It just goes to show how ignorant I am > about windows or computers for that matter. I was not even aware that > there was a systems restore feature like that. Anyhow, it worked. I now > have it back. I was very concerned about this. > > Thank you very much. > > > -- > sunprince > Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway >
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