re: the answer Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 10:45 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jessica otte (2 messages posted) I figured it out! Just boot your computer, and press F8 to chose from boot options. Select the harddrive or whatever windows is on, and before you select the OS, press F8 again, to choose the mode you want to use. Choose Safe Mode and go into windows as Administrator (password is just 'enter' if you haven't yet set it). Once you are in, you can go to the Documents and Settings area, and play around with the ownership and access to the files. Make sure you select the box that applies the new properties to all sub files and folders of that profile directory.... just play around with stuff, and do this until you can get in. Make sure you add access for the profile (account) that you usually login with - don't leave it as adminstrator only, or you'll have to go into safe mode any time you want to access the files. jessica Written in response to: re: the answer (Paul: Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 12:08 am) Responses to this message: re: the answer (Satish: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 11:52 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] win XP re-install (sergent: Tue, Sep 18, 2001, 12:04 pm) re: win XP re-install (scott taylor: Tue, Oct 30, 2001, 8:06 am) re: win XP re-install (|debug: Wed, Jan 9, 2002, 6:09 am) re: win XP re-install (mrh: Thu, Mar 14, 2002, 2:11 am) the answer (Alex: Mon, Jun 10, 2002, 5:25 pm) re: the answer (Matt: Mon, Sep 30, 2002, 8:29 pm) re: the answer (Martin Fullbrook: Mon, Oct 28, 2002, 12:51 pm) re: the answer (Noah: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 11:51 pm) Re: Thanks (Joel: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 3:06 am) re: the answer (vir: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 9:16 am) re: the answer (jessica otte: Fri, Jan 31, 2003, 8:45 pm) re: the answer (Paul: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 12:08 am) re: the answer (jessica otte: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 10:45 am) re: the answer (Satish: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 11:52 pm) re: the answer (Jainash: Sun, Mar 7, 2004, 7:27 am) re: the answer (frank: Wed, Feb 19, 2003, 1:19 pm) re: the answer (Elvis gates: Sun, Oct 12, 2003, 8:35 am) recover XP on an other machine (dom bertrand: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 9:07 am) re: the answer (Haps: Tue, Dec 2, 2003, 2:17 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum