No User Profiles on Welcome Screen

[Guest]

No user profiles appear on the Welcome Screen
On boot, the welecome screen appear, Turn Off and Restart work fine, but No user profiles for logon.
Press Control+Alt+Delete ~ then my logon name appears but doesn't accept all attempted passwords including blank.
Attempted user name "administrator" with blank or various other passwords - no luck.
F8 - Safe Mode - No profiles, F8 - Safe Mode Command prompts - No profiles.
Called tech support, Removed laptop battery, held reset button down for over a minute, held power on button for over a minute - no change.
Changed boot to CD-ROM, ran "Window XP" OS CD-ROM, selected Repair - no change.
Ran full install of XP from CD rom - of course now it works but most all is lost..

Just before failure: Connected Infocus LCD projector - worked fine, unit went to sleep for an hour. I logged back in then exited normally all the way to Turn Off. Problem occurred on next turn on.

 

[purplehaz]

I see this problem alot. All you had to do was do a system restore back to
an hour or day when your accounts were there and they would have come back.
Not sure what causes it.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem.
I can't get past the user logon screen so how do I do a restore?

 

[purplehaz]

Boot to safe mode, log in as administrator (if it shows on welcome screen),
run system restore.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, I'll try it when I get home tonight!