Need User Account Help!

[macx]

Long story short, went thru the instructions on the Internet
Security forum to clean my computer.

Along the way, the instructions say to prepare for a certain
scan by opening a User account that has a name as opposed
to the generic Administrator account created when windows
is first loaded.

I had never created any account other than that initial
Administrator account as it served my purposed and I'm
the only one EVER using my computer. Also never gave
it much thought or researched it, but off the top of my
head was not familiar with creating multiple user accounts,
so just never paid it any attention as it worked fine under
that initial non-named Administrator account.

Well, lo and behold, when I finished all the security
downloads/installs and scans (several of the last of
which are in Safe Mode) and rebooted to get back
to my normal non-safe mode - it only gives me the
choice of the new user account I created specifically
to carefully follow the security scanning instructions.
When I log in on that, all the many folders I had parked
on the desktop, and even all my many precious bookmarks
in Firefox are gone!

I suspect it's cuz I am not logging into the initial
Administrator account (not a named User account).

BUT after a frantic search in Help and trying everything
that shows itself in Control Panel, I can't find how to
get back to that non-named Administrator account.

There MUST be a way but it certainly isn't showing
itself anywhere that I can find.

PLEASE help me get my computer back!!

Thanks so much

 

[Po`Girl]

Either logout of your new account and type "administrator" at the logon screen

if available, or -

1.Create another admin account.

2.Login to that account.

3.Delete the files in C:/Documents and Settings/"your spyware removal account"

4.Copy the files from C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator to that same spyware account.

5.Login to the spyware account.

 

[macx]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

I went into control panel / user accounts /
change the way users log on & off, and
deselected Use the Welcome Screen

Then when the simple logon came up using the
"new" user account name, I simply changed
it to Administrator and Voila!

But why couldn't Help or something EXPLAIN that?
It's simple enuf, but typical Windoze has always got
to make things into a mystery by assuming everybody
is an IT engineer.

After spending an honest 26+ hours of steady scanning
and downloading new/additional security devices, and
after having over the last numb er of years losing physically
a couple hard drives, and having to reload everything
(using Norton before I discovered TS) and even losing
everything one of those times - not to mention all the
hours scanning / learning / fighting all this crap and spending
all the money involved - I'm soooo ready to go back to Mac.

My wife and daughters have had Mac's for over 8 years,
3 of them for much of that time, and have not had
problem ONE with viruses, spyware, adware and all this other
crap. And those operating systems are SO much simpler to
learn and more intuitive to new users than Windows.

Just imagine a computer you never have any problems with
malware, never have to spend any money on security programs,
or any time scanning / fighting / removing malware.

I'm sooooo close (in spite of the new, good machine I built
2 summers ago and is a nice and well equipped machine - other
the fact is runs Windoze. Anybody in the market? ;-)

Anyway, got THAT out of my system.

Thanks so much, again!