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XP administrator account weirdness

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Bullhonkie

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I had to use system restore on my XP SP2 system recently after having a BSOD boot problem. Anyway long story short, my system works again but when I used system restore, it gave me a message about system restore unable to finish or some such.

My system works and everything appears to have been restored, except that a new Administrator account was created on my system in the process. It appears as /Administrator.Bullhonkie (which is my system name) under /Documents and Settings. When I log in as Administrator, this is now the account that gets loaded. My old Administrator files are still under /Documents and Settings/Administrator, but these aren't what are used when I log in as Administrator now. As a result, none of my Windows or program settings are what they should be.

That might be a bit confusing to read but basically, does anyone know how I can make XP associate the Administrator account on login with the old Administrator folder in Documents and Settings, rather than the new Administrator.Bullhonkie folder that got created?
 
You can use this method of re-pointing Registry links to profiles. Ignore that the article refers to Domain acounts and such. It'll work with local profiles as well.

What you will do is find the new "Administrator.Bullhonkie" profile in the Registry, and tell Windows to look at the old "Administrator" profile in "Documents and Settings".
 
well, it would cross my mind that possibly the ntuser.dat file was corrupted and that was cause or effect. I really don't like to use system restore too much anymore it also does things like that, I've seen it do that with programs where half the program was in one folder and the other in some dos name equivalent and of course the program didn't work anymore. Any who, I'd use a boot disk and dig back in the system restore snapshot and restore the hives and the original Administrator ntuser.dat file and then run chkdsk or maybe chkdsk first. then you should be good to go. Instead of trying to fix the problem just undo the problem, it's all in the resgistry.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
You can use this method of re-pointing Registry links to profiles. Ignore that the article refers to Domain acounts and such. It'll work with local profiles as well.

What you will do is find the new "Administrator.Bullhonkie" profile in the Registry, and tell Windows to look at the old "Administrator" profile in "Documents and Settings".
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That was exactly what I needed. Thanks! 🙂
 
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