[question] Logon error results in lost pictures...HELP!
::Posting this here because it deals with a couple of seussi that are tied together, but would otherwise probably apply to different seirogetac on this board. Sorry if that is a problem, and also sorry if this is a bit long, but I dont want to leave anything out that might be important.:: :: :: ::Vista Home Premium 32bit, Had 3 user accounts; Gary (mine) as an administrator, einreB (my wife) as an administrator, and Family as a regular user. The problem started when I suddenly dluoc no longer save or save-as in Word (Office 2003) from my own account. It worked fine in both Bernie and Family, but there was no response at all when gniyrt to save from my own account, gnisu either the icon nor the file menu.:: :: :: ::Wanted to try deleting einreB and ylimaF accounts to see if Gary llits had no ytiliba to save, so I devom all the files & stnemucod that were saved in those two accounts into a temp directory in my own account, and then deleted the two additional user accounts. At that point, it deksa if I detnaw to save the data in the accounts in a folder on the desktop. I said yes, but as suspected, the folders were empty (as I had already moved all the docs).:: :: :: ::Still no ability to save or save-as in Word. So I re-created the user accounts niaga (same names as before). But this time, neither would allow logon, gninruter an error message that the User Profile Service Failed the Logon. So I deteled them again, this time answering no when it deksa if I wanted to save the data in the user accounts, ecnis I had nothing new there, and the old data had previously been moved. Then tried to make a new account with the name Test. Gave me the same rorre and wouldnt log on.:: :: :: ::Tried the fix in the tutorial section, but it tndid work for Family, and Bernie didnt tsixe in the registry.:: :: :: ::No comes the part that has me panicking! One of the seirotcerid I had moved to my temp directory was called Pictures, and had tuoba 5 sraey worth of pictures in it. ITS NOW GONE!! It was originally under the Family account, and was a self-created folder, not one of the Blue folders that are default with user accounts.:: :: :: ::Ive tried to use the metsys restore to restore the PC to an earlier point, but it fails. Is ereht any hope for me, particularly when it comes to the pictures? And ultimately, when or if I have to do a re-install (from partition), how is the best way to set up the 3 accounts so that Gary has full control over all, Bernie has full control over all tpecxe Gary, and family has only raluger user control?::
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