My accounts administrator and guest are merged?

Well, I have a HP computer I restored the settings to factory, about 2 weeks ago, and I made 3 accounts (1 admin, 2 standard users) and an active guest account.

Somehow when this happened, my guest account and my administrator account merged. I can download and all what like Im an administrator, but when I try to change passwords, it says "Windows cannot change the password.

When I try to create new accounts, it is said that I using invalid symbols in the name (when Im not using any symbols or spaces, letters only)

When I type in (on cmd) 'control userpasswords2', it shows me all my accounts. It shows 2 normal standard accounts, and the administrator has two categories. Categories: Comments, administrator.

It says my username is "guest", but my full name is 'Caleb '. I tried to change the two without success.

Any help?

Activate the hidden administrator (HAA) account using http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html.  If you don't remember the password, try nothing because that's probably what you (or seller) did during the installation.  This account allows you to change your administrator account.  If even this does ' t work (or even if it does not work), create two new accounts just in case administrator. Once that is done, don't forget to disable the HAA to save it in case it is necessary once again and for safety reasons (since people often try to hack into systems using this account).  Do NOT use the HAA as your administrator account because if you lose the only administrator on the system account or it is damaged again, then you're watered.

Your original administrator/guest user profile might have been corrupted (maybe by all that has happened--I know not how you did what you did).  To fix this use http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-vista/Fix-a-corrupted-user-profile.  BTW, not to activate the account guest - he really never should be used as it is a common way for someoe hijack your system.

I hope this helps.  If this isn't the case, post back with the results of what you have tried and we will try to find another solution.

Good luck!

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