Re: XP Pro: Administrator is missing

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From: Gordon (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:45:30 +0100

"Lance Cole" <lcole@chapel-lumber.com> wrote in message
news:ilY9c.60652$Oo5.1981@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> I have a pc that has two users set up. The administrator and another. It
> is running XP Pro. It crashed today and when it rebooted it did so under
> the other user instead of the administrator. I tried to switch back to
the
> administrator but could not. That "user" was no where to be found. The
> Administrator file still exists under Dociments and settings. I tried to
go
> into user set up to find it but it is not ther either. It does show up
> under USERS in Administrative Tools.
>
> Any ideas what is causing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lance

It's the built-in Administrator account, that's why. Boot into Safe mode if
using HE or in Pro, at the welcome screen press Ctl-Alt-Del twice.

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