Slowpockets
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G4 Powerbook running 10.4.11
I made a second user account on my machine a few days ago with limited user capability. The account was basically setup as a simple internet user station with limited access to applications, no access to preferences, and no access to the utilities folder.
Processing had slowed way down so last night I logged out of both users (Admin and Guest) and restarted the machine. Start up proceeded as normal till it got to the log in screen and the only account available was the guest. I logged into the guest user thinking I could then switch users (I set the preference for the machine to not automatically log in as Admin at startup). No deal, tried to go back to the login screen and the guest user was still the only visible account. And just to compound the problem the apps don't work right now when logged in as Guest. the help viewer is hosed. I can search topics but when I click on a topic it takes me back to the opening screen so I couldn't access any of that. The internet works on it but it's slowed down to a crawl, practically unusable, pages only load about 25% of the time otherwise they time out. So I had to wait till I got to work this morning to post this.
So far the only things I've tried are what little keyboard options I have at startup, I zapped the Pram but all the other functions seem to be disabled as well. I have not started up from a disk yet. I couldn't find the install disk last night so I'm going to scavenge one from here hopefully.
Anybody have any thoughts on what happened to the Admin account, why it's no longer visible, and what I can do to restore it?
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: Slowpockets on Dec 4, 2007 7:49 AM
I made a second user account on my machine a few days ago with limited user capability. The account was basically setup as a simple internet user station with limited access to applications, no access to preferences, and no access to the utilities folder.
Processing had slowed way down so last night I logged out of both users (Admin and Guest) and restarted the machine. Start up proceeded as normal till it got to the log in screen and the only account available was the guest. I logged into the guest user thinking I could then switch users (I set the preference for the machine to not automatically log in as Admin at startup). No deal, tried to go back to the login screen and the guest user was still the only visible account. And just to compound the problem the apps don't work right now when logged in as Guest. the help viewer is hosed. I can search topics but when I click on a topic it takes me back to the opening screen so I couldn't access any of that. The internet works on it but it's slowed down to a crawl, practically unusable, pages only load about 25% of the time otherwise they time out. So I had to wait till I got to work this morning to post this.
So far the only things I've tried are what little keyboard options I have at startup, I zapped the Pram but all the other functions seem to be disabled as well. I have not started up from a disk yet. I couldn't find the install disk last night so I'm going to scavenge one from here hopefully.
Anybody have any thoughts on what happened to the Admin account, why it's no longer visible, and what I can do to restore it?
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: Slowpockets on Dec 4, 2007 7:49 AM