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can't access User Accounts or log into Safe Mode or change anything
I received a message that I had logged into a temporary account and in order to save my work I had to change users.
The problem is: I cannot do ANYTHING. If I log off and try to log on as a different user, the only active icon is my regular account (david) and the ADMIN icon is grayed out. I cannot access User Accounts; I cannot log into Safe Mode; I cannot access msconfig.exe; I cannot do a system restore, I cannot change anything in REGEDIT; I cannot install a program.
For almost anything I try to do, I get a window that says, “Do you want to allow XXXX to make changes to your computer?” and the “YES” button is grayed out.
There are six temporary user accounts. Five are empty, the sixth one appears to be the one I’m logging into. When I log off and try to switch users, the sixth one does not have an icon.
I have a SATA USB drive attached that has some of my programs. Now, when I boot, Windows usually does not recognize it. Sometimes, it does. When it does not, I can access many of the programs on it by going to \users\david\desktop\startup. David is my user name
I downloaded and burned a "Windows 7 Rescue Disk 64 Bit" CD, but it appears to be the same thing as the Windows installation CD. I have not doene anything with it. -- I don’t want to re-install all of the applications (like Office, Firefox, and Thunderbird) on the C:\ drive.
I've downloaded, burned CDs, and looked at 11 "rescue" CDs, but haven't found anything that helped. What else can I do?
Windows 7 x64 Home, 100 gig SSHD with 30 gig free, Intel i-5 2 core 3.3 GHz, 8 gig memory, MalwareBytes AntiMalware shows no problem.