Access problems after rebuilding admin account


  1. Robert42
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    Access problems after rebuilding admin account


    I recently had some problems with my desktop reconfiguring each time I logged in and deleting all my files. Nothing I found on online and fix this problem. So this is the approach I took.
    1. Created a temporary administrator account "mine".
    2. Deleted my account "Robert".
    3. Rebooted the machine, to be doubly sure that all changes had taken effect.
    4. Recreated my account "Robert" configured as administrator.
    5. Deleted temporary account "mine"

    The This seemed to work, I had a stable desktop and I was able to reload all my data files from a backup.

    Now we come to the situation that I am hoping someone can help me with. A lot of three files and folders on the system will not give me an immediate access any longer as I have to use UAC. This as affected my backup program SyncBackFree and all so free download manager,

    There are now two user accounts that appear to be mirrored, "Robert" & "Robert.machinename"the latter I have never seen before until now and there are no other users on the machine except for myself.

    Can someone tell me how I can get it back to be able to the way it should do with out having to do a reinstall.
    Thanks, Robert
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  3. gregrocker
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    Try Take Ownership Shortcut.
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  4. Robert42
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    Thanks for the suggestion but it did not work for me. I found the only way was to do a new install.

    Robert...
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