locked out of my User Account with CORRECT password

A few days ago on my HP laptop Pavilion I was locked out of my user account. Yes, CAPS were off. Yes, I restarted the laptop. It didn't matter. And no, nobody has access to my machine.


I was able to sidestep the issue a couple of times by logging into my Admin account and then switching over to my regular account which required that password but somehow it now worked.


You can probably guess what happened next: This little maneuver stopped working. Yesterday, even going through Admin, the password was rejected there too.


I reset my user account password in Admin but guess what? It again said the password was incorrect. I retyped, I copied and pasted, to no avail. And I know it had accepted the new password because the hint now reflected the new one. But still, no dice.


I've since created a new standard account that I'm able to use in the meantime but the fact is, I need to figure out what prompted all of this.


Does anybody have any idea?

Give the hda scan for erros it may be the profile is corrupt

Thanks Samuria. I don't know what hda scan is though I googled it. But you gave me the idea that the profile might be corrupted. I'll look into that.


I was thinking of synching files and folders between users. I normally would never do that, but now I;m desperate...


If I sync, is this going to be READ only or can I acquire the files from the old account? Or will the old account even be accessible?

Hard drive scan I meant phone auto correct LOL

I see. Lol.