microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

grwilbourn wrote:
> Thanks for you input. I'll get with the owner and let him know I'll
> have to clean everything up.... I'll let you know how it goes. May
> not be for a week or so since I have some minor surgery this week.....
> Thanks again....

Youch - good luck & speedy healing.
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> grwilbourn 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.