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Originally posted by PenguinBoy
The previous username was "olixander" but had been changed from "ollie" so the user folder is called "ollie".
Olixander is the name of the user he's curently using, which does indeed have matching credentials to the previous, but it has created a new user area, and has restricted access to the old one because of the different name. and i thought the registry was what asigned a folder to a user.
yes, but the important credentials assigned and locked to a user account aren't stored in the registry, only the ("unimportant") folder names which don't have anything (or not much) to do with the encryption of those folders are stored in the registry. Those folder names aren't so close "attached" to the user account; you can change them to anything you like; they only provide a "reference" to the "name" of the folders...
(sorry for the heavy use of quotes, but those words aren't exactly technically accurate)
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Originally posted by PenguinBoy
so what we're going to try is to create a new user with the name "Ollie" and matching credentials to the very original user. And then change the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders so that it leads to there. Then if it fails, try it with "ollixander"
will that not work?
I can only hope for you it will....
good luck
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