computer help please....... Options

[808celica]

well im stupid................

heres my problem i have a administrator account so i figured id make another one to to have some personal stuff on. like music and what not..........

so i make one...........

and now all the stuff i have on the old administrator account is how can i say it unaccessable

i try to access the old administrator account but it doesnt show up in the log on stage.........

how can i get back into that account.

everything seems to still be all here..........but i just cant get to it...........

anyone get what im saying????

[tonytutino]

try and boot your computer into safe mode
when you restart your computer, just start tapping the F8 key.

that should put you on your computer as just a user in diagnostics mode. maybe then you can swap your 'hidden' files to a more accessible place.

i'm not sure if this will even help but its worth a try!

[808celica]

thanks imma do this now.

all my files are still there cuz my memory didnt go up or down......

so the files from the stock/old/original admin. account is there i just cant get to it

[808celica]

nope didnt work. i took some screen pics see if it'll lead to an answer

[Supersprynt]

Did you try switching users?



This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:02 AM

[808celica]

okay found this on google

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum...or-account.html

tony it said some stuff you told me but i still cant access the old admin account.

Did you try switching users?

yes i did, i created another admin. account to have my personal stuff like songs and pics.

it seems like the new account over-rode the old admin account i had from the start. now i cant get into it anyway i think.

[Supersprynt]

Did you go to the Users option in the Control Panel?

I'm slightly confused with what you're saying. You created another Administrator account and called it Administrator?

[808celica]

Did you go to the Users option in the Control Panel?

I'm slightly confused with what you're saying. You created another Administrator account and called it Administrator?

no no no i made another admin account. that "Administrator" account is the original admin account from the frist day i got this computer.

when i made another admin account that original one just seems not to exist.

my memory usage hasnt gone up or down so i know my stuff is still there i just cant get to in

[Supersprynt]

So your new account has administrator accessability but is named something different?

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:11 AM

[808celica]

booo i pretty much have a "lost administrator account" and i cant get back to it


i tried googling it but no one seems to have it solved without doing a system restore.......

i dont wanna do that cuz i need the files i have/had

it would take me about 2 weeks to get it back up to par.....

not including the pictures i cant get anymore

So your new account has administrator accessability but is named something different?

i googled "lost admin account" and posts popped up.

yes my new account is and admin........but the old admin account i had is now lost. i cant access the files i cant log in i just cant find it anymore.

[Supersprynt]

Well your killing me with the way your answering these questions so I'm going to assume you created an administrator level account with the name "Administrator" since you don't have to name it "Administrator" to allow Admin. accessibility.

Did you try to search for your files using *.mp3 or *.jpg?

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:19 AM

[808celica]

sorry about the answering im just frustrated hold on i'll try to re-word everything and see if i can clear up some stuff.

[808celica]

okay hope this helps

I created a new user ID and it became the new administrator.
This new user ID has none of "My favorites" or the "my documents" or any of my pics, any of my files or any other preference configurations of the first, default administrator account. I cant see the old administrator account. I cant see or access anything in the old administrator account. I cant even get into the old admin account.
I want to delete the new user ID
which was given the administrator account and go back to using
the old admin account which has all my preferences, but it won't
let me delete the new user ID since now it is the administrator.
All of my preferences are sitting in the C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator but I cant access it using the new admin account and the old admin account doesn't come up on reboot or safe-mode. How can I restore all my default settings and delete this new user ID, and go back to using and accessing the old admin. account.

the administrator account you see in my pics is the old account that i cant access or log into.

the new account(s) i made are Jay Bee and J, these new accounts have NOTHING from the old admin account named "Administrator".
i want to delete the new accounts and go back to using my old administrator account.

but i cant access or log in the old one.

hope this clears up some stuff supersprynt and everyone else

This post has been edited by 808celica: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:24 AM

[hongkongnerdboy]

you know.. sometimes the old acc is still the admin....

[Supersprynt]

Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > User Profiles and try to copy over the Administrator stuff to another Profile under using the Copy To.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:29 AM

[808celica]

Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > User Profiles just to double check you don't have 2 listed as the same name.

i did that but i'll do it again.



i have only one admin account which is the new one.

and i have the guest account.

the old admin account (which i think you can call it the "built-in administrator" account from what i read this cant be deleted just in case of stupid stuff like this, this is what i want to access that has all my files.)

This post has been edited by 808celica: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:31 AM

[Supersprynt]

I edited my post as I saw you elaborated. Try to copy the admin stuff over to the other account.

It's hard to comprehend that you can't switch users to the Admin account. If you renamed the new account Administrator I could see the problem, but all the accounts should show up on the switch users screen. Very odd.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Mar 4, 2008 - 12:42 AM

[808celica]

Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > User Profiles and try to copy over the Administrator stuff to another Profile under using the Copy To.

okay here is where i feeler even stupider........

im in contral panel dialog box.....

cant find system

I edited my post as I saw you elaborated. Try to copy the admin stuff over to the other account.

It's hard to comprehend that you can't switch users to the Admin account. If you renamed the new account Administrator I could see the problem, but all the accounts should show up on the switch users screen. Very odd.

very odd....yes

i look under user account and i dont see the old admin account........so im assuming i cant transfer anything if its not there

all the other accounts show up....the new account i made and the guest account.(this is in the control panel>user accounts)

even in the swith users screen i dont see the old admin account......

[Supersprynt]

[808celica]

okay gotcha