Forgot to mention... If you do reinstall the operating system, please read this... 
as you will probably find that your old accounts are now gone and replaced by the 
single Administrator account.  

What to do?  First when you are reinstalling then you may be asked what to name the 
computer.  I think that the name of the computer will be randomly generated each 
time so you can pick a new name like 'WINXPCOMP' rather than using the random name 
generated by Windows.  Each user account (including the default administrator) will 
be created with that name.  For example there may be an 'Administrator.WINXPCOMP' 
account and if your name is Fred and you create an account after reinstall then you 
may find a 'Fred.WINXPCOMP' account created.  All of these accounts are located in 
your Windows partition.  If your Windows is on the C: drive then look under C:\Documents 
and Settings and you will probably find the old accounts there from the previous 
installation.  All of your old programs are still there but the links and personal 
items that you had before are not associated with an account on the new installation. 
 Log in under the Administrator account on your new installation and under Start 
button select Control Panel and User Accounts.  Select Create A New Account and create 
a new name.  It is easier if you pick a new name that you didn't have under the previous 
installation!  Log out and Log back in or restart the computer and go in the Administrator 
account again.  Next navigate to the C:\Documents and Settings folder and you hopefully 
should see a folder with a name of an account from a previous installation.  For 
example if you used to use an account called Freddy then you may see a folder called 
Freddy or Freddy.(then the old name of the computer as mentioned above).  You should 
also see a folder in C:\Documents and Settings with the new account you made.  Let's 
say that is called Fredster.  So you navigate into the folder of the old account 
Freddy and into the folders and copy the contents into the new accounts.  For example 
you can navigate into the old Freddy folder Cookies and under the file menu at the 
top do a Edit then Select All to select all the items in the folder and then Copy,,, 
then go back to the Fredster account and the same folder Cookies and enter that folder 
and then do a Edit then Paste.  You are just copying the contents of the Cookies 
folder in the Freddy account to the new Cookies folder in the Fredster account.  
You do this for all the folders including the Documents, Favorites, Desktop, Start 
Menu, Windows, etc... between the two accounts.  If you get an error by copying the 
entire folder say Cookies to Cookies then try going into the folder and doing the 
Edit Select All and Copy then Edit Paste functions between accounts and see where 
you error out to not include that file in the selection to copy over.  This will 
make most everything the same between the old account to the new one with some exceptions 
like visual display settings.  Also Windows uses some security information based 
on each account which may mean some security authentication or authorization I'm 
guessin' that may not pass but most will transfer between accounts.  There are a 
few system files you may want to transfer between the accounts and to see them go 
to Windows My Computer and on the top menu choose Tools then Folder Options then 
View then Show Hidden Files and Folders.

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