I guess I shouldn’t have, but I was trying to configure my home computer’s profiles and I think I messed up. The default location is C:Documents and Settings%User%. I saw two folders, Administrator.DIVA1 (my computer name is Diva1) and Administrator. I DELETED the Administrator one, changed the permissions on the Administrator.Diva1 to allow me to assign permissions and restrict other users. I also configured the desktop folders for the following profiles: AllUsers, DefaultUsers and later, Administrator.
Upon logging on after removing Administrator the first time, I received the “Temporary directory is not found” message and was setup with the default user profile. Fine. Then, the next time I logged on as Administrator, anything I clicked gave me an “PROGRAM ERROR: explorer.exe error … restart program.” Since I am a part of the Administrators group, I created another user to test and troubleshoot. This user, lets say her name is Betty, when I set her up as a normal USER and tried to logon, my system gave me an error that it could not log user on, contact administrator. So I logged on as myself, an administrator and changed her to the Administrator group also — her account behaved exactly as the “Adminstrator” account did (I mentioned earlier); on first attempt, default user, on second attempt explorer.exe error.
If anyone can help me that would be wonderful. I just installed Windows 2000 2 weeks ago and would like to avoid reinstalling it at all cost. It seems like I am missing something, some policy or permission or folder name, something … and I now have this problem. How can I get the Administrator account back to its original state? If you have advise as to how I can correct this without reinstalling EVERYTHING, that would be nice. Thank you.
Debi.
