Windows vista restore other user

Previous Next. Umesh P. Hi, Have you connected the computer to network or domain? Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Umesh P's post on November 8, Umesh - thanks for these suggestions. I apprecite them.

Iw ill get back to you. In reply to el gordon's post on November 8, Umesh - I booted up with the Vista install CD, ran a system restore or system repair - can't remember the exact option wording. It ran for a few minutes and offered to restart to see if it corrected the issue. Before restarting, I looked at the log file. I can't read these things but I always look at them to pretend I'm a geek. However, at the bottom, it suggested the root cause was probably a change to the sys config file.

My son didn't dive into his system to that level, and doesn't know about that file. In any case, after booting and running the restore, it brought the log in screen back to his name.

My next steps are to run Malwarebytes and Avast tonight going to run that on my home system, too and see what that turns up. Then my son is going to upgrade to a 32 bit version Of Win 7. Any suggestions on that, or things to be aware of?

Thanks again for your help. Dena B. Hi el, Thanks for visiting the Microsoft Answers Forum! In reply to Dena B's post on November 10, I have looked online and they are available for purchase, however my question is, when you did the restore, were you able to get to all your information? In reply to jjordan's post on February 21, Did anyone have any luck? Right now I'm installing windows service pack 2 it's taking forever but once it's done I'll check safe mode.

Normal mode shows up with only my User and Guest Account, which is turned off. OK, when SP2 is done see how it goes and describe word for word what you see on screen when you boot up. Hi there, SP2 is finally done. I restarted, pressed F8 and was able to boot up in safe mode. I checked the users and still there is only mine and the guest which is turned off. I forgot to mention that the "other user" screen would show up when I went into system repair. I loaded up system repair too, and it asked for other user.

It is the normal login screen, as if you had a password protected user account. When I leave it blank it says "windows security: please enter a user name and password". When I enter anything it says "the specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". There are no buttons on the screen to turn off the computer or anything I have to do that with the power button , just an "ease of access" button on the bottom left that does nothing when pressed.

Have you had this PC from new? Or was it once used in a business environment? Right-click Computer from start menu, click properties, click Advanced System Settings, Computer Name, Change, select workgroup and change the work group name. Click Ok. The reinstallation disc you have, is the writing printed onto it or is it hand written? Can you get hold of a Vista retail disc that matches the version of Vista that is on your licence key sticker? Yes I bought this laptop new 4 years ago.

Only I have ever used it. I have changed the work group name as you have said. Yes, the writing is printed on the CD. It is the official disk that came with the laptop.

And no, I can't get a vista retail disk. Go back into the User accounts in safe mode and add a memorable password to your Admin account and then report back what happens when you enter normal mode. I've had no joy finding any real answers to this one. All the threads I have looked at referring to the sign in error message relate to PC's connected to a domain in a business environment.

All I have found is something that may do the trick as a workaround. As you are the only person who uses this PC if you have no problem with getting shot of the log in you can switch off the User Account Control, Go into the user accounts and in the left hand pane of the window you will see a line that says "Turn User Account Control on or off" click on it and then select to turn UAC off. That should stop any prompt for a password when you boot the PC. There are other possibilities that I can suggest if this doesn't not work.

Yeah I haven't had much fun either lol. I have been searching and searching with no solutions so I thought I should make my own thread. I've created a password in safe mode but it hasn't affected normal mode at all besides asking me for -my- password.

It wasn't asking for other user when just doing a normal startup But I've done a couple of updates now and it hasn't asked for other user. UAC is already off I hate that thing lol. Trying to launch system repair through F8 still brings me to the other user screen. It seems other user only pops up now in system repair and not during normal startup that's something, at least.

I'm going to do some virus scans regardless You may have already tried this but does it ask for other user if UAC is turned on? As the drive has been wiped it is extremely unlikely that you will find any infection and I am not aware of any type of infection that would cause this issue.

Don't be tempted to run any kind of registry scan as that can do more harm than good. I just found this, it relates to the hidden Admin account on Vista, might just be a solution. If you have "SteadyState" installed on your system this might just be the fix to solve the "Other User" log in screen.

This came from another forum. To delete 'other user' account from welcome screen on a Vista PC, follow the steps below: 1. Log into administrator account. Run Steadystate. Uncheck all boxes in the first option. Click OK. Disable Disk Protection and reboot. Here's how to create a restore point. Select the System Protection tab, and then select Create. In the System Protection dialog box, type a description, and then select Create.

To look through the contents of the backup, select Browse for files or Browse for folders. When you're browsing for folders, you won't be able to see the individual files in a folder. To view individual files, use the Browse for files option. To search the contents of the backup, select Search , type all or part of a file name, and then select Search.

Tip: If you're searching for files or folders associated with a specific user account, you can improve search results by typing the location of the file or folder in the Search for box. You can restore files from a backup that was created on another computer running Windows Vista or Windows 7. Choose Select another backup to restore files from , and then follow the steps in the wizard. If you're restoring files from a backup that was made on another computer, the files will be restored in a folder under the user name that was used to create the backup.

If the user names are different, you'll need to navigate to the folder where the files are restored. For example, if your user name was Molly on the computer that the backup was made on but your user name is MollyC on the computer that the backup is being restored on, the restored files will be saved in a folder labelled Molly.

Select the Start button, then select Computer. Double-click the Users folder. You will see a folder for each user account.

Double-click the folder for the user name that was used to create the backup. The restored files will be in the various folders based on where they were located originally. After you restore your computer from a system image backup, there may be newer versions of some of your files in a file backup that you want to restore. To restore files from a file backup that was created after the system image backup was created, follow these steps.