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WinXP Home – Need Help with User Accnts
LockedThis may be an easy question for most of you. I have a Dell 2350, XP-Home, and allowed Windows to automatically download and update SP2 on it. Well, all my system would do is reboot, reboot, reboot, until I finally reinstalled XP-Home on top of the prior version (reinstalled it into the same Windows Folder without deleting it or starting from a fresh slate). It seems to work fine at the moment, but I had the family’s user IDs on the old system, each password protected at logon. Now, they are all missing from the logon screen, but all the files are there. The files are not viewable as they are protected and an error message appears “access denied”. Now, how can I get the user accounts to be displayed at the logon screen? I am concerned that if I simply readd as new accounts from Control Panel / User Accounts app, that it wil overwrite the data files in each one, losing the contents. Am I correct in that thinking or not? Any advise?