New User setup after Administrator.

> 8FFABD54-789D-48E6-A3A8-040662C79B54@microsoft.com,
> Rick Gomez <RickGomez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > I have a home-user who has been using the default
> > Administrator account for all of her needs. Everything was
> > fine until she got put into Safe Mode for some reason and
> > created a new user.
> >
> > When she logged on with her new user, she found that all of
> > her files were not where she put them. Obviously, they are
> > in the Administrator areas, as I showed her. However, when
> > we logged in other Safe Mode in the Administrator account,
> > we were not able to delete her new user account. Any reason
> > for this? --
> > Rick Gomez

>
> As soon as you create an account that is a member of the
> administrators group the built-in Administrator account goes
> back into hiding which is right where it belongs. The fact of
> the matter is that you don't want to delete her new account.
> She shouldn't be using the built-in account for anything other
> than an emergency.
>
> In order to give her access to her old files and settings you
> need to do the following:
> Create a third account which is a Computer Administrator. Call
> it whatever you want because you're going to delete it once
> this procedure is complete.
> Log on with this new admin account and follow the procedure
> outlined in this article to copy the contents of the
> Administrator profile into her user account:
>
> How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>
>
>
>

> Thanks. I was pretty sure this was the only option. I was
> hoping for an easy way out for this user.
> --
> Rick Gomez
>
> "Nepatsfan" wrote:
>

>> 8FFABD54-789D-48E6-A3A8-040662C79B54@microsoft.com,
>> Rick Gomez <RickGomez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>>> I have a home-user who has been using the default
>>> Administrator account for all of her needs. Everything was
>>> fine until she got put into Safe Mode for some reason and
>>> created a new user.
>>>
>>> When she logged on with her new user, she found that all of
>>> her files were not where she put them. Obviously, they are
>>> in the Administrator areas, as I showed her. However, when
>>> we logged in other Safe Mode in the Administrator account,
>>> we were not able to delete her new user account. Any
>>> reason for this? --
>>> Rick Gomez

>>
>> As soon as you create an account that is a member of the
>> administrators group the built-in Administrator account goes
>> back into hiding which is right where it belongs. The fact
>> of the matter is that you don't want to delete her new
>> account. She shouldn't be using the built-in account for
>> anything other than an emergency.
>>
>> In order to give her access to her old files and settings
>> you need to do the following:
>> Create a third account which is a Computer Administrator.
>> Call it whatever you want because you're going to delete it
>> once this procedure is complete.
>> Log on with this new admin account and follow the procedure
>> outlined in this article to copy the contents of the
>> Administrator profile into her user account:
>>
>> How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new
>> profile http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Nepatsfan