[Dale]

No, that's not what I asked.

I believe that you commented that you could not log in as flip. In particular, you said:

"When I go to log on using flip and my correct pass word it tells me it is invalid."

And you said you lost your disktop icon, and lost all of your other settings.

Now, I think that you are using some other account - not flip. And I think the reason you lost the settings was that you aren't logging in as flip. And that you haven't logged in as "flip" since the problem happened.

If my assumptions are incorrect, and you have always been logging in as "flip", then just say so and feel free to skip the rest of this post.

However, if you haven't been logging in as "flip", plese do the following, as I outlined before:

Step 1: Log in as some other user (not "flip" of course) that has administrative privileges. Perhaps that's how you are logged in already.

Step 2: Click on the windows icon in the lower left corner.

Step 3: Type the word "users" (without quotation marks, and do not press Enter) in the search box, and wait for stuff to appear.

Step 4: Click on "Add or remove user accounts".

Step 5: In the panel that comes up, click on "flip"

Step 6: Click on "Change the password".

Step 7: In the panel that comes up, fill in the 3 boxes, and then click on "Change Password".

Step 8: Exit out of all open things.

Step 9: Log out.

Step 10: Log in as flip, using the password you set in Step 7.

See if you have your MA3 settings back (as "flip").

Please let everybody here know the results of doing that.