Help reinstating an XP user account!

Chobra

I recently created a user account for myself on my dads XP system, when doing so it automatically set me as administrator and the original administrator account has been lost. Although i can access the original documents via documents and settings.

Is there a way in which i can either create a new account and reinstate all of the original data to it or go back to the way in which I originally had the account without losing work which has been done since the account change?

Thanks

Seagull

I don't know if this will work but have you tried doing a system restore ?

Chobra

would that lose work thats been done since the new account creation?

Created account last week and dunno exactly whats been saved etc on the pc.

kat21

yes if doing a system restore you may loose information. Thats why its important to back up data such as word documents pictures and even save some software to disk too. You could do a backup to dvd or cd and then do a system restore to re gain the old administrators account.
or
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Administrator Logon
If the administration logon is not show on the Welcome screen

To access it...

Hold down Ctrl and Alt and press Del twice
To unhide the Administrator account so it always shows up...

Click Start
Click Run
Enter regedit
Click OK
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
Windows NT
CurrentVersion
Winlogon
SpecialAccounts
UserList
If Administrator exists...
Double Click on Administrator
Set Value = 1
Click OK
If Administrator doesn't exist...
Click Edit
Click New
Select DWORD value
Enter the name Administrator
Double Click on line
Set value = 1
Click OK
kat21

Seagull

Take a look here.