I have XP pro on my laptop with the default administrator account and guest account, additionally I have the admin account I setup when windows was installed and a limited account.
I was logged into my admin account and enabled fast user switching so i could login to the limited accout as well, seemed ok and it sould have worked as I've done it before ok. However when I logged off and switched users it wouldn't accept my password for the limited account.. i thought fine, the account is locked, so I tried to log back in to my admin account but it wouldn't accept my password for that either!
i'm 100% certain I had the correct passwords but I was left with no choice but to shutdown the machine... upon reboot neither of my accounts presented themselves at the log on screen but both the guest and administrator accounts did (which didn't before).
I logged in as the administrator and went into the users applet and both of my accounts were missing! I tried to recreate one with the same name as before but it said user account already exists.
how do i get my accounts back?
I was logged into my admin account and enabled fast user switching so i could login to the limited accout as well, seemed ok and it sould have worked as I've done it before ok. However when I logged off and switched users it wouldn't accept my password for the limited account.. i thought fine, the account is locked, so I tried to log back in to my admin account but it wouldn't accept my password for that either!
i'm 100% certain I had the correct passwords but I was left with no choice but to shutdown the machine... upon reboot neither of my accounts presented themselves at the log on screen but both the guest and administrator accounts did (which didn't before).
I logged in as the administrator and went into the users applet and both of my accounts were missing! I tried to recreate one with the same name as before but it said user account already exists.
how do i get my accounts back?