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Tom
Guest
On my Windows 2000 Pro laptop with my HD partitioned as C: and D:, I just
repartitioned the D: drive to give me more space using V-COM's Partition
Commander (I booted from the PC CD).
While using the boot CD, I saw a menu item labelled "Change SID". I figured
that it would present me with a dialog that would show the present SID for
my hard drive. However, I got an hourglass and I guess it must have changed
it without asking - damn!
After booting, I logged in as a Administrator and did some disk defragging
(DiskKeeper). I also installed the lastest MS updates using Windows Update
(except for the .NET updates).
Horror of horrors, I've lost my non-Administrator usernames!
My two Administrator usernames work fine. But my two no-Administrator users
are GONE! When I log in with my username MainUser, it lets me in with my
password, but I've got a clean desktop!
When I go into C:\Documents and Settings, I see the following directories:
MainUser
MainUser.ComputerName
SecondUser
SecondUser.ComputerName
The <user>.ComputerName entriesd are new. MainUser and SecondUser appear to
have all my old settings
Was it the SID change? Was it the Windows updates? Why is it only user
accounts and not admin accounts?
PLEASE, WHAT IS GOING ON and how do I resture/recover my user settings?????
HELP!!!
Tom in Desperate Trouble
repartitioned the D: drive to give me more space using V-COM's Partition
Commander (I booted from the PC CD).
While using the boot CD, I saw a menu item labelled "Change SID". I figured
that it would present me with a dialog that would show the present SID for
my hard drive. However, I got an hourglass and I guess it must have changed
it without asking - damn!
After booting, I logged in as a Administrator and did some disk defragging
(DiskKeeper). I also installed the lastest MS updates using Windows Update
(except for the .NET updates).
Horror of horrors, I've lost my non-Administrator usernames!
My two Administrator usernames work fine. But my two no-Administrator users
are GONE! When I log in with my username MainUser, it lets me in with my
password, but I've got a clean desktop!
When I go into C:\Documents and Settings, I see the following directories:
MainUser
MainUser.ComputerName
SecondUser
SecondUser.ComputerName
The <user>.ComputerName entriesd are new. MainUser and SecondUser appear to
have all my old settings
Was it the SID change? Was it the Windows updates? Why is it only user
accounts and not admin accounts?
PLEASE, WHAT IS GOING ON and how do I resture/recover my user settings?????
HELP!!!
Tom in Desperate Trouble