Re: Where did my administator go??

On May 21, 10:33 pm, A1liner2 <A1lin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'd been using just the admin log in for a long time and finally added my
name and assigned me as an Admin too and also added the guest log-in.

The isssue is this - everything I have ever done is under the Administrator
and filed as such. Now that Admin doesn't show up on log in screen so I can't
access. What do I need to do to get this to open up again so I can get to my
stuff? Do I then keep it there and transfer to my Joe account too or ???

I'm baffled, frustrated and going crazy. I have a doc that has to get sent
off tomorrow and it's "hiding"

You first sentence indicates you may need to do some reading about
maintaining security on this system.

I think most people will contend that it is not a good idea to be
using the Administrator account for anything except solving problems
with your regular account which would have been created soon after a
new installation.

You can give your new account Administrator privileges, but using
Administrator for every day use makes me cringe. If your day to day
use somehow breaks your Administrator user account, you may be in big
trouble. If your day to day user breaks your personal account, you
will need the Administrator account to fix it.

The Guest login is installed disabled by default, but maybe you mean
you created another user for guests to use, that is not the built in
Guest account. I don't even know why it exists in the first place.

All this is up to you, so if you don't have the XP Recovery Console
built in to your system you might want to add it.

If you don't have a bootable XP CD with all your Service Packs, you
might want to find them and keep them in a safe place.

If you continue using the Administrator account and have added a
password to it (which has none by default) you better keep that
password in a safe place as well.

Jose
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