Like I said you may have to do a clean install especially if it's not allowing the account to log into the system. I think someone else may have to step in and help here as short of
Doing a clean install i have run out of ideas on this one.
Still don't understand why you are using the command prompt net user command.
Can't you use Control Panel / User Accounts to create the new account?
I know we were discussing this in your other thread but I'd still like to understand what happe4ns when you do.
When I click on user accounts it goes to the page of the logged in user account and I can't click "Manage another account" because when I do nothing happens.
But I think only when logged in as admin/in safe mode.
For some reason when I'm logged in as admin or in safe mode I also can't create files so that might be part of the problem. Should I try from WinRE or would that account just be stored on the temporary X: drive?
If you have Administrator enabled, can you login to it from a normal boot?
I think we're going in circles here. May be time to bit the bullet, backup your data and do a repair install. If that doesn't fix it then do a clean install. Painful but it should resolve the problems.
Try SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker in the safe mode command prompt. Post the results afterwards.
Jumping in to ask a few question or two. Don't let my post distract you from the path you are on.
Are any of the other accounts admin or are they standard users?
I read a members post a while back that spoke of recreating the user profile, don't know if I booked it or not. While I look, does that jog anyone else's memory? There might even be a tutorial on recreating a user profle.
The steps were fairly simple..,, I'll post what I find.
If you have another admin account, try creating a new user profile on that login.
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