Sorry, that didn't work
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This hasn't got anything todo with the registry (much). Accounts, passwords and stuff are mainly saved and handled by the Windows User Credentials. Tweaking the registry will not help...
CACLS is used to change the rights of other people towards the account your using this command with. Not vice versa as that would of course be a huge security hole.
PS: CMD is the DOS command prompt. It isn't a "program" per se.
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Originally posted by Olixander
So far i have tried making a new account called Ollie but the pc calls this Ollie_2
The directory name can be different, that doesn't matter. The important thing is that the credentials are the same as the old one (aka, the username and password)...
But as I can read from your post, you should not make a user named "Ollie", but "Olixander", as that was the last working username for that corrupted directory, so try that.
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.
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?
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