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Name: wayne russell
Date: March 11, 2004 at 22:01:01 Pacific
OS: XP Pro
CPU/Ram: AMD K6 3D processor/384 M
Comment:

Dear Group:

Ref: 93517, 93010, and 92414.

I am not sure why this worked but here is what happened.

I followed suggestion by the kind and knowlegable folks in this forum. And I was a least able to get my drive to boot into the Administrator account. In January I thought all my personal account data was gone. (i.e. e-mail, downloaded programs, etc)


But today I noticed that the custom icon for my personal account was still there.

So I used the Admin account to change my personal account password.

I restarted the computer and logged on as Default (f.k.a. personal account) and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw my personal account desktop with everything still there. I opened Outhouse Express and all my e-mails are still there too.

I have no idea why this worked.

Could someone please explain?

TIA!

wayne



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Response Number 1
Name: nulladd
Date: March 12, 2004 at 18:21:08 Pacific
Reply:

huh? isnt it obvious, because your data wasnt encrypted changing the password wouldnt affect it



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Response Number 2
Name: wayne russell
Date: March 12, 2004 at 19:03:32 Pacific
Reply:

Dear nulladd:

Please don't be rude.

It was not obvious to me. That is why I had to ask.

Thanks.

wayne


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Response Number 3
Name: nulladd
Date: March 13, 2004 at 23:53:45 Pacific
Reply:

sorry my bad, i didnt mean to word it like that


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Response Number 4
Name: wayne russell
Date: March 14, 2004 at 16:34:58 Pacific
Reply:

No problem.


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