Re: Auto logon means I can't get admin account

Nightowl wrote: 
Hi all

Using Windows XP Pro SP2. As I'm the only user on a standalone PC, I didn't use to bother with a password and Windows would log me in automatically.

Then I found I had to have a password in order to get Task Scheduler to work, so I set one, then used UserPasswords2 to again set my account to log in automatically.

This works fine except that I cannot now find a way to access the built-in Administrator account.

Before I used UserPasswords2, I could get to the Admin account by starting in Safe Mode (the trick of pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del twice I've seen here never worked for me, apparently because Windows thinks I am part of a workgroup rather than a domain). This worked whether I had a password set on my own account or not.

Now, however, I get automatically logged in even in Safe Mode, with no chance to choose the Admin account.

IS there any way of doing this so that I can keep auto login, keep Task Scheduler happy and still get to the Admin account if I need to?

Thanks for any help.

Try uninstalling user passwords2, if it then gives you the option to select a user, re-install it and click start, run type msconfig, click startup and uncheck user passwords2 from the list. Finally restart your PC and now you should be able to select a user with the software installed.

Failing that, click start, run, type services.msc and disable the user passwords2 services.

Be sure to click dependancies in the properties of the user passwords 2 service and disable any services it is dependant on. Restart your PC and see if it allows you to select a user.

I suggest you create a system restore point before you attempt any of the above, you can roll back to that if anything goes wrong.
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