Re: Safe mode (Administrator login)

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:50:38 -0700

Steve;
Go back to Safe Mode.
Log in to your daughters account.
Then go to User Accounts in Control Panel.
Select Administrator.
>From there you can change the Administrator password.
Log out then you should be able to log into Administrator. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Steve Healey" <SteveHealey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:980420E4-FCF7-44D6-A364-3CF85A9F4844@microsoft.com...
>
> I have 3 accounts setup on my PC all with administrator rights.When i had 
> to
> boot in SAFEMODE, only 2 accounts showed. One was the administrator and 
> the
> other was my daughters. I tried to log on as the administrator but it 
> would
> not accept my password.
> Any ideas why and also why the other 2 accounts dont show?
> I could do what i needed to do using my daughters account but that isnt 
> the
> way it should be!!! Or is it ?????
> NB I restarted the PC when i was logged in to my own account and F8'td on
> reboot.Could this of caused it and should i have logged out first and then
> restarted?

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