Re: User -> administrator ?

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Gaëtan wrote: 
HI. I have this friend who got a pc from a friend with nothing else on
it than Win XP pro ( no sp1, or sp2 ! )no other programs.
His friend account was the administrator one but forgot to give him
his old password. After few tentatives with passwords my friend gave
him, XP finally asked him to change his password. So he created his
own. He finally got into the OS. So he decided to create a new
account in his own name and password. He did so and it worked fine.
But he deleted his friends administrator account at the same time. So
now he's only a normal user and his pc doesn't have any administrator
account! He can't add, delete or do anything in the pc, not even get
to regedit, or to the " modify your account " window since he's not
an administrator !!! Is there an easy way to transfer is " user
account " into an " administrator account ". I think he doesn't have
the Win XP CD !!! Thanks for your help.
Gaëtan.

You can't delete the built-in administrator account. At the Welcome Screen, press Ctl-Alt-Del twice. This should bring up a log-in box. Use "administrator" for the user name (without the quotes). It is possible that if XP was pre-installed that the password for The Administrator is blank.

HTH


Nope ! there was a password already set. But the friend didn't remembered it. So he got a new one in. And it works.. but as a "user", not an " administrator ". Thanks for your help.
Gaetan.
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