When upgrading my RAM I somehow damaged my user profile.... xp creates a
back up of this damaged one and sets up a temporary one (least that's what I
think it did) I copied over my backup to a new one.... when I looked in my
user profiles settings there was a bunch of profiles in there (approx 6) so
(stupidly) I deleted them all except for the new one I'd created. I now
realise that I maybe should have left the administrator profile there and
possibly some of the others and now I have no idea what I can do I tried
system restore but it didn't work. I now only have the one profile (which
is an administrator account). In C:\Documents and Settings though it has
the administrator, All Users, User, and the new one I've created.... I am
the only person that uses the computer. The computer appears to be
functioning fine but am wondering if I will run into problems down the line.

What I want to know is should I have kept the "adminstrators" user profile
.... if so how do I get it back.... creating another user account doesn't
does not re-create what I used to have...

Hope I have explained it clearly enough... thanks for any help

Joosie

Yes, you should have kept the Administrator account.

As to fixing it, since it's been deleted the best way (IMO) would be to
perform a repair install of XP (instructions here:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm )

Should your profile become corrupted again, try this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

- John

"joosie" wrote:

> When upgrading my RAM I somehow damaged my user profile.... xp creates a
> back up of this damaged one and sets up a temporary one (least that's what I
> think it did) I copied over my backup to a new one.... when I looked in my
> user profiles settings there was a bunch of profiles in there (approx 6) so
> (stupidly) I deleted them all except for the new one I'd created. I now
> realise that I maybe should have left the administrator profile there and
> possibly some of the others and now I have no idea what I can do I tried
> system restore but it didn't work. I now only have the one profile (which
> is an administrator account). In C:\Documents and Settings though it has
> the administrator, All Users, User, and the new one I've created.... I am
> the only person that uses the computer. The computer appears to be
> functioning fine but am wondering if I will run into problems down the line.
>
> What I want to know is should I have kept the "adminstrators" user profile
> .... if so how do I get it back.... creating another user account doesn't
> does not re-create what I used to have...
>
> Hope I have explained it clearly enough... thanks for any help
>
> Joosie
>
>
>

"usasma" <usasma@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FDAC1E36-C72B-4C28-9B08-B7C992A23560@microsoft.com
> Yes, you should have kept the Administrator account.
>
> As to fixing it, since it's been deleted

You can't delete the built-in Administrator account. All you can do is to
disable it AFAIK......