# XP people I got a ? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 11, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424 "2006-07-11T16:41:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/1 "2006-07-11T16:41:09Z")
I got my friends laptop…It kept restarting on start up and crap…Got rid of a few viruses etc it boots fine now… But…Her user account it screwed up…its reading data from… C:\Documents and Settings\TEMP Not C:\Documents and Settings\Cassandra Like its supposed to be…is there an easy way to change this? Im assuming there is some registry value for default search path for a users directorys? Im sticking to UNIX this XP shit is lame ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/2 "2006-07-11T16:55:56Z")
right click My Computer in the start menu, go to properties. Advanced Tab -\> Environmental Variables. Is that what you’re looking for? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/3 "2006-07-11T20:28:07Z")
Nah It lost a User name its kinda weird… If you goto Advanced Tab and click Settings under account profiles it says Account Unknown… ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/4 "2006-07-11T20:28:44Z")
What happens if you create a new user account. Could you just backup the settings, recreate the account, and restore the backed-up info? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/5 "2006-07-11T20:29:56Z")
Then lists two duplicate user profiles…that are slightly diffrent sizes and one is labeled as a backup…Hmmm ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/6 "2006-07-11T20:35:41Z")
Im gonna try adding a user and copying all the contents of the one folder over to it and see what happens…Im sure it will fuck something up but oh well… I figured there would be a user account variable that you can edit to pick the users directory path. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/7 "2006-07-11T20:43:29Z")
Straight from google in regards to killing the evil account once done: [quote=“dude”"] well if either, this is easy to do, boot into safe mode, then log on as default admin, then open control panel-\> admin tools-\>comp mng-\> then goto -\> local users and tools and delete the rouge user folder and it will be gone. keep in mind whatever user u delete form this area will completely remove it, so make sure u r deleting the proper 1. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/8 "2006-07-11T20:48:09Z")
I got it all figured out now…I was just hoping there was an easy way to change the settings… ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xp-people-i-got-a/14424/9 "2006-07-11T21:53:54Z")
damn, i wish i was here to see the reply! I knew how to fix this… Sorry I wasn’t around for the second response! Glad you got it all figured out