Hi, and thanks for your idea. Tried sysstem restore the other day; it doesn't seem to work in my case for some reason.
Hal ----- Original Message ----- From: "firoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] CHANGING my USER NAME > you can try system restore > usually it works > thanks > firoz > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hal Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Blind Computing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:01 heena > Subject: [Blind-Computing] CHANGING my USER NAME > > >> Hi to all on list: >> >> My name is Hal and I just joined yesterday. A little about myself, I am a >> blind computer user living in Canada, my screen reader is Jaws and I use >> Windows XP as my operating system. I enjoy computers, music, reading, and >> lawn bowling. >> >> An interesting thing happened to me the other day. Basically my user >> profile appears to have gotten corrupted. How this happened, I don't know >> except to say that it all began right after I lost all sounds and jfw 9.0 >> wouldn't talk. The only thing I remember is that I held down on the power >> button on my laptop's docking bay for 10 seconds until the system shut >> off. Perhaps I hit an odd keystroke before that I just don't know. >> Whenever I'd boot my system, both my Jaws and Windows settings weren't >> retained; it was like Windows lost the ability to remember the changes I >> made. I like to use Windows classic start menu but at that point, Windows >> had other ideas; I'd have to make the change every time. Can anyone here >> relate to this? My dad, who is very knowledgeable about computers saw >> that >> Windows was unable to locate my user profile. He was able to create >> another account for me, it's Haliard. For now, when I boot my computer >> Jaws comes up with the log on screen, and I am given the choice to log in >> as either Hal Pearson, or Haliard. If I log in as Hal Pearson, my >> settings >> will not stick so I log in as Haliard. Once I get rid of the corrupt >> files >> and throw away the old Hal Pearson account, I'd like to rename Haliard, >> back to Hal Pearson. So when I arrow up and down in my start menu, I see, >> "log off Haliard..." Where do I go to make this change so I'll then see >> "log off Hal Pearson"? I can make an educated guess. I went exploring in >> control panel and found user accounts. Do I make the change there? >> >> Hal >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
