Guest mjs Posted October 26, 2007 Posted October 26, 2007 I just installed 2GB of additional ram, and installed a new HD at the same time. Both seem to have worked fine (they show up in the systems reports, and I'm formatting the new drive as I type this), except for one small problem... LOCAL USER could not be found when I booted back up. Smack in the middle of the Welcome screen during the boot-up process, I was told the local user account had a problem and that I'd be assigned a "temp" account, which was virginal - no shortcuts, no automatic messenger sign-in... the OS was untouched; save for the programs installed which were all still visibly there (but the Start Menu program order had reverted back to before I ordered it properly). Also visibly there is my usual account. Let's call it "Charlie". I can see it under Documents and Settings, along with "All Users" and - what's this? - "Charlie.Machine", where Machine = name I gave the machine when I installed the OS. - All Users - Charlie - Charlie.Machine <-- Huh? When I go to USERS in the Control Panel, however, I see only "Charlie". When I look at who's name titles the Start Menu, I see "Charlie". But I'm clearly "Charlie.Machine", as browser favorite/bookmark tests soon revealed. How do I tell WinXP that the default user ought to be "Charlie" and not "Charlie.Machine" (even though it tells me I'm currently "Charlie")? What if I copied all of the contents of Charlie's Documents and Settings into Charlie.Machine's? Would that screw things up even more (registry-wise)? I spent all afternoon configuring Outlook, too. I really don't want to go through that again. :-( Even Outlook Express asked me to re-enter this news account from scratch for me to post this. Help? Quote
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