New Windows User Account

vivaladiva

Hi
Had a printer connection problem that was traced to the fact that my user account had been corrupted. Have had to set up a new user account, but cannot access documents and emails without switching back to the old one.
Is there an easy wasy to move the docs and emails that I want over to the new one?
TIA
Diva

Atasas

sure you are not phished?

vivaladiva

Atasas wrote: »

sure you are not phished?

phished?? I don't think I am.
Lady on Lexmark support said it was a common problem with Vista.
She remotely accessed my laptop - quite a freaky experience lol.

Atasas

ok
honestly- dont have a clue which /what acount u r talking about (seemed to be windows- clear malware)
adviser and email accounts?- sorry!- what is happening?

vivaladiva

Atasas wrote: »

ok
honestly- dont have a clue which /what acount u r talking about (seemed to be windows- clear malware)
adviser and email accounts?- sorry!- what is happening?

It is my general Vista User account that I sign onto windows with.
I have had to set up a new one so that I can print things as there is a problem with the old one, which is preventing my laptop communicating with the printer.
I have no idea why this is so, but I had a major internet problem back in November. Things haven't really been the same since despite running Malware Byte and Hijack this.

-TangleFoot-

Is this of any use to you?

vivaladiva

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Is this of any use to you?

Thank you TangleFoot, that looks promising.
Will it get my emails for me too?

-TangleFoot-

If you can take ownership of your old user account folder (usually C:\Users\<username>) you should have access to everything within. Are you using Windows Mail?

vivaladiva

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

If you can take ownership of your old user account folder (usually C:\Users\<username>) you should have access to everything within. Are you using Windows Mail?

Yes I do use windows mail.
I'll give it a try.

-TangleFoot-

Another way of doing this would be to log in to your old account, copy the mail store to somewhere else and import it into your new account from there.

Mail store location:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

Contacts location:

C:\Users\<username>\Contacts

vivaladiva

If I delete my original username, will I lose all the documents and downloads?