RE: PLEASE HELP!! MY ACCOUNT ISN'T WORKING!!



"Chase Overmire" wrote:

> Josh,
>
> It's possible that your profile has some how become corrupt. One thing you
> may want to try is to get into Safe mode (When you turn on your machine, hit
> F8 before the loading windows screen comes up and choose safe mode)
>
> Once in safemode, holy the windows key and hit pause/break. This will open
> system properties.
>
> Click the Advanced Tab
> Click Settings, in the User Profile section
> You will now see your profile in that list, it may even say unknown, letting
> you know something is wrong,
>
> Now you can take a few different track, just delete it and restart to
> recreate the account, or you can create a new account before restarting.
>
> I would atleast back up my favorites, files in my documents, such as that
> before actually deleting the unknown profile.
>
> Which is commonly found at:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\*UserAccount*
>
> Even if it doesnt say unknown, try making a new profile and logging in with
> that.


Chase,

But all the other accounts are working!! So I don't know what is wrong with
it!!
.

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