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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
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kst
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
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kst