User account will not show in Windows Explorer

luser2 · Mar 31, 2009

Under c:\users user accounts show up, but not "luser". "luser" is my main account

If I go to users in command prompt and start at C: then > cd users. I end up at C:\users and then I type > CD luser I get ( C:\users\luser> ) and then I can do a dir and get access to many directories and so on. But why did it "luser" dissapear in the first place and can I make it reappear in the /user directory from the GUI ? Using windows explorer ?

I appreciate any response on how to do this. It does seem, and I am not absolutely sure, that my user name has been translated to a long sequence like
S-258-df-45-gh-etc-etc

( I made up that alphanumeric sequence to show an example thats not the actual one). I don't even remember how I discovered it. But mostly I want to be able to see my main account show up again in the /user folder.

Again any help on this I greatly appreciate.

Brink · Mar 31, 2009

Hello Luser, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might check to see if your user folder was hidden by mistake by temporarily unhidding all system files to see if it appears as a faded folder. If it is, then you can just set it to unhide.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

luser2 · Apr 1, 2009

Thanks very much. I thought I had already unchecked hide protected operating system files. I guess I had not. Anyway I very much appreciate your help. One further question if you know it off hand, why is the user account properties set to read only? Does that only apply to the folder ? And is that the out of the box setting ?

Again thanks so much, a very easy solution which plaqued me for a couple days.

Brink · Apr 1, 2009

You're welcome.

What folders were set to be hidden?

Yes, the User folders are suppose to be set as read only by default. It has to do with the junction points. For example, C:\Users\(user name)\My Documents and C:\Users\(user name)\Documents folder.

User account will not show in Windows Explorer

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