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Originally Posted by iwantchixx
For future reference always backup entire contents of Documents and settings/administrator folder, Make sure to turn on "show system files and folders" and "show hidden files and folders" option in the folder properties before copying though. This way you always have a backup of your user directory for when these things happen. All your custom user files, email, browser settings and plugins and bookmarks are all safe.
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Good suggestion. I always keep show system and hidden on, but I generally only back up data and less frequently stuff like actions. I have master lists of passwords, but I don't even want to think about how hellish it would have been to be copy/pasting X6923n!pzV kinda text into every site I visit. I plan to never edit the users on this specific computer again. Never really noticed the issue on other comps, but probably those were ones where the admin account wasn't really used for work. And probably those are also ones where it would be good to have exactly the backup you suggest.