RE: System deleted User Account

If you replaced all the registry files mentioned then there will be no
reference to the updates in the registry but they will still exist on your
harddrive.Now if the original problem only corrupted the sam file then you
will only have to replace the sam file.Now if you only replaced the sam file
when you installed the updates.Then the only registry file you should replace
is the sam file from C:/system volume.
Hope this makes sense

"Ushnell" wrote:

Thanks Jake even though I taught of doing that in advance before posting the
recent post to see if group members would recommend restoring XP that way.

Well I did and it worked :-) Jake but here's the new problem:-(: while I was
using XP with that user account that the System created there were some XP
updates and new software installed such as Mcafee to fend off the Malware
stuff I realized that the pc was infected with.

the reason I say new problem is because now that I have reverted back to the
original user account, it seems that those updates and the software(s) were
not administered to it while that user account was deleted because of the SAM
fresh file replacement.

Now what I'm thinking of doing is reloading those registry files and go back
to that user account and uninstall the updates and software(s) but as a
caution I keep telling my self to not uninstall any updates because it's
doing something like that which has put my Windows 2000 PC in a almost
useless state.

What do you recommend?
--
Ushnell


"jake" wrote:

Do the same thing you did with the sam file except pull the files from
C:\System Volume Information (restore files) Note:Check the date that each
file was created and that will tell which restore it is.You'll need
Sam,System,Security,Software and maybe default.It should get you far enough
to do a true restore.You will have to rename the files from volume
information as the file are named _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM
_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY
ect
also make sure you back the files up just incase something goes wrong.

"Ushnell" wrote:

I know this post seems a little leghntly but it's because the problem takes
much to explain.

A few weeks ago I made a mistake in the registry by gettings permissions to
read the contents of SAM.

but after I was done I deleted my permissions and let the System have full
control of that key, did some work and restarted the pc but that's when I
realized I did something wrong because a message saying: LSASS.EXE-SSYSTEM
ERROR with the instructions to restart th pc in safe mode and read the system
events for info but that meassege box still appears and it causes Windows
Logon to freeze.

What I ideally decided to do is plug the hard disk into my other Windows
2000 PC and use regedit to restore the SAM from the C:\WINNT\repair folder to
the C:\WINNT\cofig folder but their I made another mistake because it seems
that SAM was a fresh file and wh it did is disaled my original suer account
and created a fresh new one.

The System profiles list seems to consider the former administrator and
Guest acount as unknown even though they are in the Windows NT registry key
list.

Being able to login I used System Restore to reverse the system to a ealier
point but I keep getting the "Restore Incomplete" "no changes have been made
to your system" message. There's some problems such as Explorer.exe restarts
when I do right click and click the File menu and I can't access the Control
Panel.

I know what I should do is re-install Windows XP but I Don't have the CD
because I picked up this PC up in front a moved neighbors house. Is there an
alternative way around this? please help!
--
Ushnell
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