Re: I need to recover "deleted" logon accounts


"bosco" <bosco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Help anyone ...

My mother, who uses has win xp home (sp2) has inadvertently deleted the
only
two xp logon accounts. As far as she can recall, after surfing a
particular
spanish newspaper website and responding to a popup box (????) which she
cant
really the meaning as her english is techologically poor.

So the immediate symptom was evident on subsequent powerup that the
welcome
screen had no users !

Now this is the SECOND time this has happened, and my "solution" was
simply
to reformat the HD and do a re-install of just WinXP Home (sp2) with
NortonAV
and ZoneAlarm Firewall. Everything worked well - until today when I get a
call that the welcome screen has no users - and yes after some popup
appeared
while surfing one of these newspaper websites !!!!

So is there a way to restore the accounts, as I would like to avoid the
time
of doing a format/resintall for lack of a better solution.

regs
suffering son.

ps. previously i did try cntl-alt-delete on the welcome screen, but even
then the logon failed. (note there was no passwords setup either)

As you said, press Ctrl+Alt+Del, then log on as "Administrator.


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