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13-Jul-2008, 02:46 AM #1
can't access admin account to fix driver
i need help!! im tired of watching silent videos from youtube. im pretty decent at looking up information on the web but i couldnt provide this time so bare with me as this is my first time posting anything in any forum.

i have a computer that my download happy stepmom screwed up and crashed. it worked great untill she went crazy and spent 10-16 hours a day everyday on myspace and she evidently followed every lead from myspace to download something. a total of about 100 gb worth of downloads. and then it crashed when i was on vacation. and because she couldnt get off myspace for a week untill i got home she did a system recovery herself without any technical knowledge or experience. and ever since then there has been no sound. she had me try to fix it once but she had withdraws after about 30 minutes and kicked me off to go download more crap. she moved out and i finally have unrestricted time allowances. four months later with no way of backing up all my music videos documents and almost legal programs i cant seem to log on to the admin account to replace the driver manually.

XP home legacy with downloaded SP2
and as for a list of programs...way to extensive to list.

when i boot into safe mode the screen pops up with the user account and the admin account(no password) but when i click on the admin account it says "loading personal settings" and then thats it i have control of the mouse up untill a time several hours later. but it never leaves that screen. when i click on the user account the thing logs right in. i figured since the user account has admin abilities i could delete the defective driver manually but it says i dont have rights to do that. i dont know what to do next so whatever anyone can do to help thanks
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28-Jul-2008, 05:11 PM #2
can everybody say something even if they dont know anything that way this post stays at the top please im tired of watching silent youtube videos
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