Music/pictures gone

When logging onto the laptop the welcome screen said administrator. When we
got into windows in user accounts (control pannel) we changed administrator
to our name. Now (even though it says our name with administrator under it
when viewing user accounts) all our music and picutures have gone missing.
We've apparently "changed" our name by creating a second user account with
Administrative privileges. We have XP Pro and were originally using the
built-in Administrator account.
Can someone tell me how to get them back as I've been going through the
forum or should I just do a system restore for the previous day?

Carl Davey wrote:
> When logging onto the laptop the welcome screen said administrator.
> When we got into windows in user accounts (control pannel) we
> changed administrator to our name. Now (even though it says our
> name with administrator under it when viewing user accounts) all
> our music and picutures have gone missing. We've apparently
> "changed" our name by creating a second user account with
> Administrative privileges. We have XP Pro and were originally using
> the built-in Administrator account.
> Can someone tell me how to get them back as I've been going through
> the forum or should I just do a system restore for the previous day?

System restore will not help - that is for system files. You have to back
up your own stuff...

Reboot. At the "Welcome Screen" - press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice in a row. Log
on as "administrator" by typing the name in - put whatever password (if any)
you used to utilize to logon as that user.

Or...

Logged in as your new user - explore to C:\Documents and Settings\ and find
the old user account and look around under its directory. Desktop, My
Documents (may be seen as "Administrator's documents"), Favorites, etc and
copy what you need/want to your new profile. Don't copy EVERYTHING - just
the files you created/etc.

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