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Win2003 Active Director uninstall, how to access old account


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zillah

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I have got win2003 server installed on my PC,,,I installed active directory (to practice with it) by using "dcpromo" command ,,,,I installed while I was logging as user: Administrator , password: forum

Later I tried to uninstall Active Directory by using same command "dcpromo",,,during uninstallation it asked about password,,,,when I entered to use "forum", it complained about complexity for the password,,,,then I entered different password: Forum06,,,,it accepted that one as new password.

When I rebooted the PC, I could not access my old username account which was Administrator….the new username account that has bee created , called also Administrator.

1- Does the new username account that has been created overwrite the old username account (Though still I can see the two different folders name Administrator (for old account) and Administrator.Dell (for new account) ) ?

2- How can I access my old username account (Administrator) ? Because it will hassle to copy every (profile) thing from old account (Administrator ) to new account (Administrator. Dell) ?
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gerryf

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Define access? What do you want to access?

It sounds as if your computer did everything it was supposed to, creating a domain administrator user and local machine administrator user.

Moving the files is as simple as taking posession of the directory and copying things over. so I do not understand what you mean by copy everything....the programs are still there and accessible, so what are you still trying to get?
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