Hi,

 

Our local social club was given a fairly modern PC (using XP) by someone who

was emigrating. There were a few problems that I sorted out as I'm

reasonably computer literate.

 

However the one that has stumped me is when I go to control panel / user

accounts with a view to introducing some new users, the user accounts window

is blank and there is no way of adding or deleteing an account. I tried

safe mode but I got the same result there. I also had a wee look on Doug

Knox's site to see if there was a registry tweak for this but could not find

any.

 

(The default user is definitely an administrator account)

 

Can anyone help with this?

 

Thanks in anticipation,

 

Jim

On Jul 2, 4:40 pm, "Jim Robin" <jim.ro...@loganswell.f2s.com> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Our local social club was given a fairly modern PC (using XP) by someone who

> was emigrating. There were a few problems that I sorted out as I'm

> reasonably computer literate.

>

> However the one that has stumped me is when I go to control panel / user

> accounts with a view to introducing some new users, the user accounts window

> is blank and there is no way of adding or deleteing an account. I tried

> safe mode but I got the same result there. I also had a wee look on Doug

> Knox's site to see if there was a registry tweak for this but could not find

> any.

>

> (The default user is definitely an administrator account)

>

> Can anyone help with this?

>

> Thanks in anticipation,

>

> Jim

 

Hello Jim,

 

Try the fixes here:

Empty Dialog boxes - Microsoft KB 83140

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831430

Hi Claymore,

 

This looks very hopeful indeed! I shall have a look at this the next time

I'm there.

 

Many thanks for your input!

 

Jim

 

 

"Claymore" <claymore@ontera.net> wrote in message

news:1183418358.478292.107100@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...

> On Jul 2, 4:40 pm, "Jim Robin" <jim.ro...@loganswell.f2s.com> wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> Our local social club was given a fairly modern PC (using XP) by someone

>> who

>> was emigrating. There were a few problems that I sorted out as I'm

>> reasonably computer literate.

>>

>> However the one that has stumped me is when I go to control panel / user

>> accounts with a view to introducing some new users, the user accounts

>> window

>> is blank and there is no way of adding or deleteing an account. I tried

>> safe mode but I got the same result there. I also had a wee look on Doug

>> Knox's site to see if there was a registry tweak for this but could not

>> find

>> any.

>>

>> (The default user is definitely an administrator account)

>>

>> Can anyone help with this?

>>

>> Thanks in anticipation,

>>

>> Jim

>

> Hello Jim,

>

> Try the fixes here:

> Empty Dialog boxes - Microsoft KB 83140

> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831430

>