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Mark
Seem to have lost the ability to logon as any of the users (barring the admin
a/c) that I had on the system before I used a secedit command to restore the
security for Vista Home Premium to default. Here's the command:
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose
Now, I have the folders for each user, in the C:\Users folder, but no logon
profile for any user except the only admin a/c which I used to reset the
security settings to default. I have backups that contain data but system
restore only lets me restore back to a time when I had the user problem in
the first place. (which is the reason I "pressed the reset button")
I can't choose to log on as any user other than the default admin a/c, (lets
call it Sally for now), so what I want to do is restore the users.
I have tried to go into the control panel, users section, but this gives me
an error message about not being able to use special charachters such as
!$%?> etc, when I try to create a user with the same name as names that are
already in the C:\Users folder (my choice of username).
I would appreciate any insight as to which method I can use to restore my
users without reinstalling and recovering the data from backup.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mark.
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a/c) that I had on the system before I used a secedit command to restore the
security for Vista Home Premium to default. Here's the command:
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose
Now, I have the folders for each user, in the C:\Users folder, but no logon
profile for any user except the only admin a/c which I used to reset the
security settings to default. I have backups that contain data but system
restore only lets me restore back to a time when I had the user problem in
the first place. (which is the reason I "pressed the reset button")
I can't choose to log on as any user other than the default admin a/c, (lets
call it Sally for now), so what I want to do is restore the users.
I have tried to go into the control panel, users section, but this gives me
an error message about not being able to use special charachters such as
!$%?> etc, when I try to create a user with the same name as names that are
already in the C:\Users folder (my choice of username).
I would appreciate any insight as to which method I can use to restore my
users without reinstalling and recovering the data from backup.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mark.
--
The pleasure of sharing, is the greatest of all pleasures.