Re: Administrator Account

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"Jonathan" wrote:

If worse comes to worst, use your guest account and follow these steps EXACTLY:

Print out these instructions (copy and paste into a text editor)

Click Start, then Run, type in "cmd" (without the ""'s) and press enter.
Once in, type the following, line after line, pressing enter at the end of
each line:

cd\
cd %windir%
ren logon.scr logon2.scr
copy cmd.exe logon.scr
exit

Now, log off and wait how ever long it usually takes for the screen saver to
come up (the one that comes up before you log in). DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING
UNTIL IT COMES UP.

When the black box comes back up, type in the following:

cd\
cd %windir%
del logon.scr
ren logon2.scr logon.scr
start control

This will open up the control panel with system-level priviledges. Go into
user accounts and make your changes.

"Malke" wrote:

p38746 wrote:

When I try to log on as an administrator it says make sure your
username and password are correct

"Gordon" wrote:

"p38746" <p38746@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:30A3582A-AD3E-48EE-816E-42DFE32C5730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently was screwing around with control userpasswords2 and I
edited the
Administrator account and edited my account so now it's a guest
account. I can't figure out how to undo this....can't log on to
administrator account.



What exactly do you mean "can't log on to administrator account"? How
are you trying and what happens when you do?

In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly
tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to
the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not
work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden
Administrator account. The default password is a blank.

In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen,
do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up
Windows.

If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or
have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the
built-in Administrator account's password to a blank.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords
that you will remember and make other desired changes.

Malke
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