If you R All Set (New York for ready dude)
BTW, I need to tell you something first. It can be dangerous to disclose information about
yourself over the internet, so wise word said.
Looks like you in southern calif and that's as close as I need to know anyway.
While in the Administrator account go to
Control Panel
Users and Passwords
click on AccountUnknown, if it is there
click "Set password"
and for now put nothing, just <enter> in both blanks
Let's go boot and see if we can get in AccountUnkown
If that works, log in to your account and see if your desktop is all the same. With Word and
Excel, etc.
I didn't change the name, because we may need to go to the registry (regedit) (not regedt32
yet)
See if it is the same and if it is do this.
Restart
type AccountUnknown
and no pass <enter>
are you in?
if yes
go to Control Panel
Users and passwords
Properties
And change the name to yours
OK out
boot
go back in to see if all is like it used to be
(I'm still curious why it changed.
Splain to me a little, please.
cheers,
don
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not responsible for typos, or bad grammar (does not include foul language)
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Kerry,
Did you try Account Uknown and a blank password?
Before you do anything else, please do this. Users and Passwords in Help will get you there.
Once in it, click related topic to get "Strong Passwords". After you have set up the first
Administrator password, write it down, and I mean where it is going to be in safe keeping. Put
it there after this. While in the Administrator account set up another administrator account
with another complex password. The reason, if anything goes bad on the Administrators, you
have a backup to get in and repair the Administrators. Password. Something like your mothers
middle name and the last four digits of her phone number or social security number and then
her maiden last name. You can use any routine like that, but its even better if the second
through sixth letter is some other mark on the keyboard, like a pipe(hard to tell from some
capial "I" (eye), or small "l" (ell)(Pipe is "shift+\". After you have done a second
administrator, put both of them up for safe keeping, and you can write them both down (in code
if you like. Like all backwards except for the other mark, if you use it. Sorry didn't mean to
get so long winded.
If you are in the Administrator account, you have full control, so you can make copies of all
the files you need to a third account, if you want to set you another account up, if
necessary. Let me ask you , did you have administrator's priveleges in your account (now
AccountUknown). Well, you can change the User and Password from Administrator account unless
something has gone astray. And one other thing, I would be so free with using your name on the
computer, without the prospect of ID theft, and many other things. Computers are at a ver
vulnerable turning point just now.
Go to your Administrator account and set a complex password. And I will give you guidance on
what to do to get your own account back up like you had it.
good computing,
don
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btw, what part of the world are you in.
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I keep getting a system error when I try to reply to your post. here's my reply...
I can log in as Administrator with a blank password. However my user name when I do it is
"Administator" where as my old user id was "mhamilton". If I put mhamilton in along with the
old password it says that the system don't recognize that user id, I'm assuming that's because
it's now seen as "Account Unknown". The odd thing is that with my mhamilton profile I had a
number of personal Excel and Word files on the desktop as well as several programs like
Quicken. However, when I log in as Administrator the program files (e.g. Quicken) are still
there but I have no personal files like Excel or Word files.
I appreciate your help...Kerry
