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Old 03-16-2008, 01:24 PM
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
 
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Re: After a reinstall of XP Home I now have two 'All Users' accounts..
grwilbourn <grwilbourn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> The PC would start booting up and right after the user would enter his
> UserID/PW it would go to a BSOD stating some sys32 dll couldn't be
> found or was corupt. I couldn't get to control panel to do a 'repair'
> so I did a reinstall.
> When finished, I had to go to Device Manager and install all the
> various drivers, etc.
> When finished, I went to Documents and Setting for found all the user
> profiles, the 'All Users' profile and then another 'All Users'
> profile with some numbers after it.
> The users do not appear at bootup, just goes to the desktop w/o a log
> in screen.
> How do I get this cleaned up? I also assume using some of the other
> posts, I can get access to the programs installed on this PC back and
> all the users profiles/files.
> Thanks in advance for you time and input....


Since you did a "parallel" install instead of a "repair," unless you can
*fix* the original XP installation, you will need to reinstall all your
programs & re-create your users. I'd back up all the data and start over
with a "clean" install.


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