hello all,
this is the closest to my situation i could find after hours of searching so i hope you don't mind my starting the thread back up. please excuse any format issues and the length, as i am in training and am desperate. any criticism and help would be appreciated. thank you.
while dealing with a winbluesoft infection, i had disabled the xp system restore as advised on other sites. i then ran antivirus software in both safety and normal modes until clean
2 account logins were available in safety.
1. Administrator - default
2. Girfriend - has desktop access to normal programs and files, our standard login
no password was/is required to login to either account
while logged in safety mode as 1. Administrator, in the "documents and settings" folder,
4 user file folders appeared:
1. Administrator.girlfriend-laptop ( as things now stand this folder is almost empty, this also might have been named just Administrator)
2. All Users Windows
3. GIRLFRIEND(blahblahblah) - the one with all the personal files
4. GIRLFRIEND.girlfriend-laptop
(i could be wrong about the names, as i am now reading them as they currently exist in windows explorer). please read on...
I then renamed folder 3 GIRLFRIEND(blahblahblah) removing the (blahblahblah) and the caps, as this was aways messy looking, and it would never let me do it while logged in as Girlfriend.
this did not seem to affect anything. I may have even been able to restart and log back in safety to the administrator account. i',m not sure. is it possible i then logged into Girlfriend in safety mode and then committed the following?
i then deleted administrator.girlfriend-laptop (1, i think) from "documents and settings" using the mouse and delete button, presumably to the recycle bin. i'm pretty sure i did not empty the recycle bin
upon restarting in safety mode, it would freeze at loading the saved settings for the Administrator account
It will restart in the other account, Girlfriend, in both safety and normal modes. but few programs work properly. all personal files are still located on the drive, but you have to do loops to get to them.
the recycle bin is inaccessible even when i can log in, so i can't restore the deleted user file from there. and to top it off, the computer is ruddy slow now. Is there anyway to restore that deleted folder back into "documents and settings" so that I can get normal access to programs and files while logged in both accounts in safety mode, and Girlfriend in normal? That is to say fix my mistake...
Is this similar in anyway? Does this make sense to anyone? Thank you for your patience.