Hi George, Ed is most likely sleeping, but I'm having a bout of insomnia, so I'll reply to this one in his stead (whatever THAT means lol). Depending on how your system is set up, there may be an option at the bottom of your Start menu to "Log Off" from your current session. If it's there and you select it, it will save your settings just like it normally would for a reboot or shut down, but will then drop you off at the Log In page where you can sign in under the "Administrator" account. To direct your log in to that account, you'll type in the word Administrator into the username area. You'll also need to know the password for that account if one was set during Windows' install. If the Log Out button is not displayed on the Start menu, you can still get there by doing a three fingered salute (CTRL+ALT+DEL) to bring up Task Manager. Once it opens, go to Shut Down > Log Off 'username' (which will be replaced by your own username, of course) and it'll do the same thing I described above. On a side note, the file you're working so hard to get is one that I just work around when I use this particular backup technique (manually copy everything before it and after it without bothering to get a copy of the stubborn file). My reason for using this technique is only to get a copy of anything I'm not willing to lose in a hard drive crash and is not designed to someday take me back to a working system if that should happen. I can always place those 'un-losable' items where they belong in a new install if needed. On the other hand, the technique I use to get the working system back onto a replacement drive with minimal fuss is to use a program like Drive Image or Acronis True Image create a full Image of the C: drive. Peace, Gman http://www.bornagainamerican.org "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fragas" <gfragas@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:31 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: ntuser.dat > Ed, thanks for the reply > > My external hard disk has his own backup program,LaCie.But,I haven`t use > it > so far.I back up either by using Send to(extern disk),or by Copy-Paste. > It may sound naive,but how do I log off George and log on Administrator? > I unistalled GOM Player,though as you say it was not the culprit. > George Fragas --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------