Originally Posted by Brink

Hello Frank, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You wouldn't have a SID key for "House" until you actually logged on to it the first time to have the account fully prepared and setup.

If you cannot create a new account at all, then I would recommend to back up anything that you do not want to lose to be safe. If it has not been to long before this started, you might see if doing a System Restore at boot using a restore point dated before you had this problem may be able to fix it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks for the welcome and the lightning quick reply!

Okey dokey, unfortunately Im not sure when this happened but i think ill just wait for my new ssd and revert to my clean install image.

Thanks again.
Frank

Hi first of all thank u for this great explaination.. this is the best one on web that i have seen for this problem..

today i had the same problem and i have been looking for a solution for hours.. i am gonna try this one but i want to know if my account options and desktop options will come back ? and if i dont backup my files and savedgames etc. am i gonna lose all of them ? my programs ?

This worked perfectly,

Thanks

hello again thanx for helping..

i ve tried the option one but i couldnt even logon this time, so i restarted with safe mode and changed the .bak folders as the previous situation.

now i am gonna try option two but i have one more question.. i back up all my important files thats ok.. but if i am gonna remove my current profile.. how can i save my programs and games ? i dont care about shortcuts.. i can create them again but programs??? are they gonna be removed too? if i try the option 2 ???

Hey there. I have tried to do this, but unfortunately something went wrong and now I have 2 of everything. 2 of all pics, 2 of all files, 2 of all videos and now I can hardly use my laptop becuase d drive is full. Can anyone help?