Re: password problem

From: Phil (I.fix.probs_at_for.you)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:01:04 -0400

Start, run, type in:
control userpasswords2
Hit enter.
Check the box to make user enter a user name and password.
Now it won't auto-logon and you should be able to choose the user you want
or log in as admin and set the other user to admin rights.

Bruce J. Weiers wrote:
> A friend has managed to create a situation in which his WinXP Home
> computer automatically logs on, using a particular username (courtesy
> of some TweakXP program), and for some unknown reason, downgraded this
> username from Administrator status to a Limited Account.
>
> So now, no matter what, the computer always logs onto to the same
> limited account, even in Safe Mode. There is now no apparent way to
> log on with any other username or to switch users.
>
> There is another account on the computer, which I assume is still an
> Administrator, but evidently he doesn't know the password. Attempts
> to use "Run As" on Users in Control Panel, with either
> "Administrator" or the other username fail (I assume because we don't
> know the password.)
>
> I vaguely remember a way to change or remove passwords on Win2K
> systems, using a bootable floppy. But, I don't seem to locate
> instructions via Microsoft or Google. (The disk is formatted as
> FAT32 -- thank god for small favors.) Could someone point me in the
> right direction?
>
> Alternatively, if anyone knows of some other approach, I'd be glad to
> hear it. (I can, of course, back up the document files, wipe the disk
> and completely reinstall, but that's a lot of work.) I have rejected
> the idea of doing a repair installation because there's no way to turn
> off the Norton Antivirus.

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