Re: User Account Suddenly Unaccessable


Sorry, Step 10 should read:
10. Type this: c:\cwlee.bat
so that it is in agreement with Step 4:
4. Type this: notepad c:\Lee.bat

The only way to retrieve your various settings is to restore access to your
profile.


"CWLee" <cdubyalee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uBnktD58JHA.4560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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