Re: seeing another computer on a LAN

HELP!

So, while I was waiting for your response, I tried creating an act on
maching A (the one that could see B), and now I'm unable to log back on as
Administrator (which is where all my files, etc are) because once there is a
2nd account, Administrator is not displayed on the logon screen, so HELP!
Please. I see the advice you've given below, but because I tried to follow
the earlier adivce re making the acts on both machines the same, I'm in
trouble - hope your still on line because I really need to get back into my
account right away...

"Malke" wrote:

jhnptbrg wrote:
Thanks for your quick response -

Both machines are XP Pro

I'd like to avoid having and managing multiple accounts on these machines,
so I'm hoping to use Administrator on both. I read where Administrator will
not be displayed if there are any other users defined, so I'm hoping I can
simply delete "User" and have Administrator appear - then I can log into that
account and all will be well, but I'm concerned re whether the Administrator
account might have a password associated with it (I bought the machine used)
- is there a way I can find out? (I've gone thru Computer Mgt\Local
Users...\Users\Administrator and can see the Administrator account there -
it's set with "password never expires" but "user can not change password" is
unchecked)

Also, re suggestions below, I've annotated what bits and pieces I've done -
if I'm left out anything mandatory, please advise, thx.

Bless your heart, you absolutely *don't* want to have only one user
account on the system with administrative privileges. If that one
account gets corrupted you will be SOL. Since you will (hopefully) never
be using the built-in Administrator account, you will not have more than
one user account to "manage" on each machine.

It is really not a big deal to simply create the User account on the
machine that is missing it. This will make the Administrator account
disappear from the login screen (if you decide not to logon
automatically to User).

Used computers should always be wiped and a clean install of Windows
done. However, to change the Administrator password in XP Pro
Start>Run>control userpasswords2 [enter]. You'll see where you can
change the Administrator password.


Malke
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