Re: Newbie question about setting up XP - coming from win98se background
From: niteowl (niteowl_at_NOniteowlproductionsSPAM.com)
Date: 12/19/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:09:46 -0500
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:38:53 -0600, Sharon F <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org>
wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:50:07 -0500, niteowl wrote:
>
>> I don't recall installing windows more than just the once...
>
>It's the only explanation that I know of for the naming convention
>(accounts with the .xxxx trail in name) but there may be others.
>
>> I did go and take ownership back, but it doesn't seem to have done
>> anything, except now I can open that folder...
>> so how do I get rid of the extra entries??
>
>That's all that should happen. You can now grab any data files you want
>from those folders and copy them over to your folders. When that's done you
>could delete the unused accounts. If they're not showing in Control Panel>
>User Accounts, check also in: System Properties> Advanced> User Profiles or
>in Administrative Tools> Computer Management> Local Users and Groups and
>delete them there.
ok, went to System Properties/Advanced, but only the 3 user accts were
showing there. however when I went into Administrative Tools/Computer
Management/Local Users, it's showing the "hidden" Administrator acct,
the Guest acct, the Niteowl, Kalehli, and Maurine accts. along with
Help Assistant and Support_388945a0 accts.
I clicked on Administrator and clicked Properties, there was no "Full
Name" listed, so I typed "Administrator", I almost tried to reset the
password but got a warning about losing data, so decided not to yet..
so it looks as though the account is there, why isn't it showing up
when I do the double Ctrl_Alt_Del ????
>> When I did the Ctrl Alt Del twice, the signin window came up with the
>> niteowl name listed... which is how I set it up now that I think
>> about it.. I did try entering "Administrator" but it didn't work,
>> either with or without a password, so I guess I'm signing in AS the
>> system administrator all the time. From Jim's posts, I think this is
>> not what I should be doing... ??? thoughts?
>
>That's odd. XP setup always creates a default administrator account with
>the name "Administrator." It can be renamed later. Is this what you did?
It seems like I named it during setup... the window came up with the
"Administrator" listed and a place to add a password, so I typed in
"niteowl" and put in my password, then continued with the setup.
btw, this was a clean install. not an OEM.
the name of my computer is ALLAING, so the idea of the network setup
thing might be the reason for that, cause I think I tried to setup the
domain thing first, then went back and changed it to Workgroup. It
had MSHOME in the field, and I just typed in WORKGROUP. I don't
understand about that, I've always just done the win98 stuff as
WORKGROUP.
>Some OEM setups alter the initial accounts - adding an "Owner" account or
>similar but you have upgraded from Win98 so any deviations from defaults
>added by OEMs would not apply. No further thoughts at the moment.
>
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