How to get user onto logon screen XP

Discussion in 'Software' started by BagelAnne, May 20, 2009.

  1. BagelAnne

    BagelAnne Private E-2

    I did a reinstall of win xp media after backing up files with Ghost.
    Now all the user accounts and data are listed in explorer.
    Can someone please tell me how to make user profiles for these existing accounts? I would like them to appear on the logon screen.
    Thanks!
     
  2. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    Go to the Control Panel > User Accounts. Then click on the appropriate options (see screen shot below; the red and blue boxes are what you're after).
    :-D
    I hope this helps!

    [dlb]

    EDIT- After thinking about the problems you're having, I think you'd have to create accounts for the users you want, then copy the documents that you can see in Explorer in to those user's "My Documents" folders.
     

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  3. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    I tried to add this to my above post but waited too long :-o

    Check out the "Change the way users log on" choices first and make any needed changes there and see if that fixes the problem before creating any accounts.... you'll have to reboot the PC to see if any changes actually work...
     

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