Re: User Account Suddenly Unaccessable



I copied the command you sent, and used it as you instructed.

Here is how that command looks, between the ### lines, as copied from your email and as pasted into the notepad session:

###################################

@echo off
set prof=C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee.System-3
set cryp=Application Data\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache
dir /ad "%prof%\.." > c:\test.txt
echo Please wait . . .
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /ad/b "%prof%"') do (
echo Processing "%prof%\%%a"
cacls "%prof%\%%a" >> c:\test.txt
)
cacls "%prof%\%cryp%" >> c:\test.txt
notepad c:\test.txt

##################################

Anyway, after I clicked the OK button in your step 11. here is what came up on a box:

Cannot find the file 'cwlee' (or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available.

So, I await your next set of instructions.

Let me share a bit more of my goals and thinking with respect to this problem.

I'm not locked into any particular account names, either of the Administrator or of me as a user. What I want very much to retrieve are the various preferences, settings, and style changes I had accumulated with my user account. Those included changed icons, some icons removed from the desktop, and other cosmetic items. More importantly, there were also preferences, settings, and style changes incorporated into my use of Word and Excel, as well as all my internet connection settings so that I could use (occasionally) Outlook Express for email, and Internet Explorer for web access. It would be fine with me if all those could be retrieved and made available on the Administrator account, or on some user account of whatever name, or both.

Before losing access to my user account I did, about once a month, connect to the internet in order to retrieve any updates for Windows 2000pro, and to update my AV program, Avast. That access was usually for only 30 minutes at a time, and the rest of the time I operated offline, with 99% of my usage being Word and Excel. (My normal email and web activities I do on my other computer.)

Before losing access to my user account I did, also, have my two computers linked by cable so that each could access the other. I'm pretty sure I can reestablish that once I regain the full use of my user account.

Anyway, I really and truly appreciate the time and effort you have expended trying to understand my situation, and remedy it.

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"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eowYMh28JHA.1340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
See below - ***.

"CWLee" <cdubyalee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OThytF28JHA.200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good to hear from you again. See my comments inserted into your message, and preceded by +++ symbols.

"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OYwchI08JHA.4000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am aware that you're keen to resolve your problem and I'm happy to assist you as far as possible. Sometimes there will be unavoidable delays because we live in different time zones: At times I sleep while you're awake and vice versa and at times I have other commitments.

+++ I agree and understand completely. I did not mean to be inappropriate in my comments. I am quite willing to work at the proper pace - I was just worried that communication had been broken off, inadvertantly, due to "not downloaded" messages. (My system still shows 1 such message.)

Continuing this discussion by EMail is not really an option. Not only would it deprive other newsgroup readers of the opportunity to see how you resolved your problem but it would also bypass the valuable "peer review" facility of newsgroups. Anything I write here is up to scrutiny and if I should issue some incorrect or potentially damaging advice then one of my peers would point it out immediately.

+++ Again, I agree completely. I was not trying to avoid working through the newsgroup - just worried that you had sent me a message which I was not able to receive.

Let's summarise the current situation:
- You have an existing profile folder C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee
- Only an administrator has access to this folder. This is incorrect.
- You copied this profile folder to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee.System-3
- You then set the correct permissions for the folder C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee.System-3
- When logging on as cwlee, you still have permission problems.

+++ Yes, I believe you have correctly summarized the situation, with a more technical vocabulary than I would use.

There are a couple of inconsistencies here:
1. Since the folder C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee.System-3 exists,
Windows should not access the folder C:\Documents and Settings\default user -
yet it does.
2. Since you set the correct permissions of the folder
C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee.System-3, you should be able to log on
without a problem.

Let's try and find out what's going on. To avoid typographical errors, I want you to run the following commands in a batch file. Do this:

+++ As I review what you suggest I see two problems to discuss with you first. First, the desktop computer that has the problem we have been discussing is not online. I have a second desktop computer, 2 feet away, which I use for online activities. Thus I can't copy and paste something directly from your email, which I read on my online computer, into the notepad of the computer with the problem.

+++ I can copy onto a disk from one machine, and place that disk on the other machine, and then copy and paste.
*** If you mean "flash disk", fine. If you mean "floppy disk" then
*** it's time to move into the new century and get a flash disk or
*** two. It's also time to network both PCs.

+++ The second problem (#2) is being sure that I have copied EXACTLY what you want me to copy. There may be line breaks and/orspaces inserted into what you typed and what my machine sees, due to different margins, etc. Should I worry about that?
*** Yes, but I deliberatly kept my lines short in order to avoid
*** this issue.

+++ Just to be safe, please confirm that the first item to be copied is the symbol @ and the last one is t Do I have that correct?
*** Yes, you do.

I have also shown it below between lines of ### symbols, to ensure that we are talking about exactly the same text.

1. Reboot the machine.

+++ When you have suggested this before, I have used the "Restart" function. Perhaps I should have been turning the machine off completely, and then after a minute or so turning it back on?
*** Restarting is sufficient.

2. Log on as administrator
3. Click Start / Run
4. Type this: notepad c:\Lee.bat
5. Click the OK button
6. Allow a new file to be created.
7. Copy and paste the following lines into the notepad session.
Do *not* retype them!

##############################

@echo off
set prof=C:\Documents and Settings\cwlee.System-3
set cryp=Application Data\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache
dir /ad "%prof%\.." > c:\test.txt
echo Please wait . . .
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /ad/b "%prof%"') do (
echo Processing "%prof%\%%a"
cacls "%prof%\%%a" >> c:\test.txt
)
cacls "%prof%\%cryp%" >> c:\test.txt
notepad c:\test.txt

###########################
*** Look fine.

8. Save & close the file.
9. Click Start / Run
10. Type the five letters cwlee
11. Click the OK button.
12. Wait until the program has finished, then copy and paste what
you see into your reply.

FYI: I'm posting this note at 4pm.

+++ My machine shows it was received here at 7:02am. Sounds like you are in NZ, Australia - or one of those time zones. I'm in Los Angeles, California.
*** Australia is where I was two years ago. You need to add
*** 9 hours from your time to get Central European time. You
*** won't hear much from me after 3pm your time.

+++ Again, I'm very comfortable working with you via the newsgroup, and am not rushing you. I can't always respond immediately either.
*** No worries, as they say in Oz.

+++ Best regards.

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