Missing User Accounts and CDRW

From: Monika (this_email_at_is_fake.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:42:54 -0400

Hello,

On Windows XP Home. I've two problems.

1)
Recently I discovered that there is a way to restrict users without
doing it to the extent the "Limited" account does in Control Panel.

Here's what I did:

Start > Run > "Control Userpasswords2"
In the "User Accounts" dialog:
clicked user name > "Properties" > "Group Membership" tab > "Standard
User" > OK

Here's what happened:

I received an error that the user could not be modified because the
group name was not found, so I clicked "Cancel" on everything and the
user vanished. When I tried to create the user again (from "Control
Userpasswords2" and the Control Panel) I received a message the user
already exists. I did not accidentaly delete the user.

The users are also gone from the Welcome Screen. The only place they
exist is in the Profiles dialog. The folders for the vanishing users
also remain.

How do I get those user accounts back?

2)
I just realized that my DVDRW is gone. Only yesterday I was burning
photos onto it, today it's nowhere to be found (on Windows, it's still
attached physicaly). It won't even open. I tried reinstalling drivers
but it didn't work. The drive is a Pioneer DVDRW-103.

How do I fix this?

Oh, and if this helps, the computer is a Sony VAIO PCV-RX580.

Thank you kindly for your assistance.

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