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by dschwer

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Restarted my server yesterday and all of a sudden my adminsitrator account became administrator.bak! Did search for virus issue and sure enough found w32.wierd. Cleaned the machine but I cant figure how to get my administrator account back. Anyone have any ideas.

Dale

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by mike jones

I assume that you actually want your profile restored for the administrator account.

Try the following, log onto the server with admin rights.

Backup the current copy of the administrators profile, then delete the old one. Rename the administrator.bak to the same name as the administrator account was named. This should restore the administrator profile.

The profiles should either under c:\winnt\profiles for NT4 or c:\document and settings for 2000.

by mike jones

First of all try deleting the temp.computername profile and then copying the administrator.bak to administrator.

If that doesn't work, copy the administrator.bak to temp.computername

by dschwer

The current administrator account is TEMP.coumputername. That is what gets created now. Are u saying in C:\documents and settings to backup Temp.computername and then delete it and then rename the Administrator.bak folder to Administrator?

by syscokid

To respond to your comment: try it, it couldn't hurt.

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