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Posted by Christopher Ish on February 4, 2006, 6:20 pm
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Try booting in Safe Mode, logging in as Administrator, and restoring the
registry using the backup copy.
-Christopher Isherwood
"_glitch_" wrote:
> I have a serious problem. Yesterday I was trying to install AVG Free Edition
> on my computer, it installed perfectly until a point in which it told me that
> a key could not be written to the registry and that the installation would
> abort. I called up one of my freinds who knows a lot about computers and told
> him of my problem. He then had me enter the registry and make a backup. Then,
> he walked me through a process in which I added a new permissions group
> called Administrators. I gave them Full Control and Read abilities and
> rebooted. Now it shows the Welcome screen, only sans the user accounts! I
> have no way to login to that hard drive. I had a spare hard drive lying
> around, so I hooked it up, formatted it, and installed Windows XP on it. I
> hooked up the hard drive that was damaged and decided to try to burn all of
> our files to CD, reformat our hard drive, and reinstall Windows XP.
> Everything was working fine until I tried to access my mom's account - the
> one with all our important business documents on it. It brought up a window
> that said Access Denied! She then went on to tell me that she had recently
> changed her passoword and she had secured her folders so that nobody else but
> her could look at them.
>
> Now I'm on the spare hard drive with no way of accessing the important files
> on my main drive. Is there any way I can bypass the folder security? Better
> yet, is there any way I can get back on my old hard drive? I backed up my old
> registry, but I have no way of accessing the backup.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> _glitch_
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