We certainly wil NOT give up, until we reach the point where, we have to say we cannot solve the problem
This thankfully does not happen very often and usually with problems where it actually requires a hands-on approach.
I am not certain, although you have done your best to explain the situation, what your problem NOW is.
If you have ALL you need for the Daily User profile in the account that now opens in YOUR wifes name, you simply rename that account as previously discussed.
OR you simply delete the account in your wifes name having copied, whilst NOT signed in on THAT account, but on the admin account, to the Daily user account.
Unless I have still misunderstood this is the siutation is it NOT
Well unless I have misunderstood you, or you me, I thought that the Daily User was NOT your wife`s account and that your wife had her account, albeit it was not on the welcome screen,as presumably it was not enabled.
The purpose of the Task Manager is to see which account is really logged on with the user name at the welcome screen, and as you report it is your wife`s account - Judy.
That is why your wife`s desktop is being loaded when you now log on with the Daily User account.
from my previous post.
So to answer this
2. How can I now make my computer re-establish a previous user profile (whose files/folders are apparently still in Documents and Settings) to bring up its (old) Start Screen once its icon is clicked on the Welcome Screen?
So in documents and settings
1. All users - that is exactly what it says, whatever is in there will be avilable and loaded on all user accounts on the computer.
2. New Daily User - this I think is now what is loaded when you created the new profile by mistake.
3.William - as you know
4.TEMP in documents and settings is NOT a user profile it is the Temporary folder that files are created in when programs are downloaded changed etc.
That is why my colleague
nokojon sent you the program TFC cleaner.
5. Judy - as you have previosuly established from what I sent you Judy is loaded is it not on Daily User.
I THINK and I apologise to you if I am wrong that it is YOU that has misunderstood, that if you delete the account for instance JUDY in Control Panel User Accounts
that simply deleting the name so that it no longer appears on the welcome scren for you to sign in, does NOT delete the account
So in short, run the TFC that my colleague suggested.
Check what you have in which account, you wish to keep, move what you wish from the other account you do not wish to keep, to that account, ensuring of course that you are NOT signed in to the account you are copying from or to, but in the admin account. Then wehn you are content, delete the account profile in documents and settings that you no longer need.
Establish a restore point before you start.
To save me a lot of typing please use this procedure but of course adapt it as necessary for what you wish to do
Create a new user account for yourself:
http://support.micro...spx?kbid=811151 Create a New User Profile in Windows XP Professional
1. Log on as the Administrator or as a user with administrator
credentials.
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. Click User Accounts.
4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Advanced.
5. In the left pane, click the Users folder.
6. On the Action menu, click New User.
7. Enter the appropriate user information, and then click Create.
Create a New User Profile in Windows XP Home Edition
1. Log on as the Administrator or as a user with administrator
credentials.
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. Click User Accounts.
4. Under Pick a task, click Create a new account.
5. Type a name for the user information, and then click Next.
6. Click an account type, and then click Create Account.
Copy Files to the New User Profile
1. Log on as a user other than the user whose profile you are
copying files to or from.
2. In Windows Explorer, click Tools, click Folder Options, click the
View tab, click Show hidden files and folders, click to clear the Hide
protected operating system files check box, and then click OK.
3. Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\Old_Username folder, where C
is the drive on which Windows XP is installed, and Old_Username is the
name of the profile you want to copy user data from.
4. Press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each file and
subfolder in this folder, except the following files:
* Ntuser.dat
* Ntuser.dat.log
* Ntuser.ini
5. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
6. Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\New_Username folder, where C
is the drive on which Windows XP is installed, and New_Username is the
name of the user
profile that you created in the "Create a New User Profile" section.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.
8. Log off the computer, and then log on as the new user.
Then you can delete the incorrect user accounts.
Edited by Macboatmaster, 10 November 2011 - 04:29 PM.
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