Sounds like you have a corrupt user account in XP. You can either copy all your data to the new user account and disable the old account or try a system restore. It all depends on how involved you want to get with this fix.
Here is a link from the Locker Gnome, Chris Pirillo, outlining the steps necessary. http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2004/12/15/get-it-done-recover-a-damaged-windows-xp-user-profile/ Hope this helps. Thanks, Hi-Tech Tarheel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Blind Computing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:31 PM 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]
