i have windows 2000 at home. It was set up(not by me) for Administrator and me. I then added 1 user. there are 2 drives C system, D data. My understanding was that all docs etc saved to my documents and ultimatley D drive as a back up.

all well until i discover C drive nearly full. All my docs have saved to c drive. i checked and found this was because the target was C. It wasn't originally. All my docs are also viewable in Administrator and the other user although sharing is not checked. The profiles for all users are huge, Administrator is nearly 1gb when it used to be about 2000KB. I also find that the C and D drive appear in the address bar in internet explorer!

In addition i have tried to add a 3rd user and although they have a desktop with all the required items, a lot of things don't work. Word cannot be found, My documents folder cannot be found, AVG shows the vault is full which it isnt, cannot log onto internet as keyboard won't type properly to type in username.

Clearly i have done something but anyone any ideas what? Can it be fixed?

All help gratefully received.

Does the Main Administrator account work OK?

Have you considered:

1. A Repair Install

2. A Clean Install

If you choose the latter I would suggest running only one partition.

Originally Posted by jephree

Does the Main Administrator account work OK?

Have you considered:

1. A Repair Install

2. A Clean Install

If you choose the latter I would suggest running only one partition.

yes main administrator account works fine. I have now found if i add new user with full control then there is no problem it is when i try to restrict to user or power user that i encounter problems.

I have a detect and repair download which i have run but it doesnt seem to make any difference.

I also ran a security analysis which revealed a number of 'inconsistencies' but more worryingly reported some programmes missing and an Error with an *ldb file. Haven't a clue what that means.

still can't understand why the drives should be showing up in the address bar when i connect to the internet.

Thanks for replying.

Putting the drive letter into the address bar will open that drives contents. This is normal.

I am assuming that you are saying they show up there without your doing? What is your homepage?

What Is An LDB File ?

Whenever you open a database, a file with the same name as the database and an extension of LDB will be opened automatically. This new file keeps track of users and the objects that require some form of locking in the database. When all users have exited gracefully from the database, the LDB file is closed down and deleted.

In regards to all your issues I would still recommend either a Repair or Clean Install from your CD.