Re: Need Admin Password for XP Home

From: wojo (kwoyachSPAM53954_at_yahoo.SPAMcom)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:00:55 GMT

Better still to have a computer just for the kids and keep tabs on it. 

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If I can help you I will.
If you can help me thanks.
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"GateKeeper" <GateKeeper@earth1ink.net> wrote in message 
news:KB19c.59841$LX.6543599@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> Now that all the kids know this, I won't be surprised to read posts from 
> puzzled parents who have lost their Administrator access.  My advice? 
> Create a password for the Administrator account, write it down, and lock 
> it in a safe (preferably at a bank somewhere).  Or you could do as I did; 
> create a password and remember it!
>
> You might be tempted to set your children's accounts to User or Power User 
> types, but many games won't work unless the kiddies are Computer 
> Administrators.  So you will just have to act like real Admins, and police 
> their computer use.  That's what I do.  So far, so good.
>
> Harry Ohrn wrote:
>> By default when XP Home is installed it creates a hidden Administrator 
>> account with a blank password. Boot to Safe Mode. Select the 
>> Administrator account, leave the password blank and access that account.