RE: No user accounts listed on welcome screen

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

First - backup this drive IMMEDIATELY! This could have been something that
hosed your hard drive - and you don't know what's salvageable and what's not.
Also, this could be the sign of impending hard drive failure - same
situation, you'll lose all your data!

Then, try booting to Safe Mode (by pressing F8 when Windows starts to load).
This should let you get into the actual Administrator account. Then you can
work the problem from there.

"Kyle" wrote:

> Today after turning my computer there are no user accounts used on the
> welcome screen. All was working find yesterday and there were three accounts
> listed.
>
> If I do CTRL+ALT+DEL I get to the username password entry box. Only one of
> the three accounts work to log in and I can get to the desktop. When I got
> to control panel/user accounts an error message pops up and says that the
> user account is not recognized and to reboot. If I reboot I get the same
> message/problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you.
.

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