Re: The Vanishing Administrator Account (XP)

From: John van Poelgeest (john@poelgeest.org)
Date: 06/12/02 

From: "John van Poelgeest" <john@poelgeest.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:14:02 +0200

Press CTRL_ALT_DEL twice on the welcome screen. You'll now get a Windows
2000 like logon box, which you can use to log the administrator on.

John

"John M. Gamble" <jgamble@ripco.com> schreef in bericht
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> I have a new machine running Windows XP Professional.
>
> I have, of course, been experimenting with it, and in the process
> of creating new accounts, and switching between them, i've found
> that the Administrator account is no longer on the Welcome screen.
>
> I went into the Control Panel and verified that yes, the Administrator
> account was listed, and yes, the account is listed as being perfectly
> accessible.
>
> But it's not in my list of choices when i'm logging in.
>
> This is not crippling at the moment, as one of the accounts that i
> created is a member of the Administrator group, but for obvious reasons,
> i'm a little worried about migrating my files over from my Win98 machine.
>
> Potentially Bad Thing that i did: I did turn off the computer (via the
> logoff choice, not by hitting the power button) without logging off all
> accounts, and Administrator might have been one of those accounts. Can
> this have been a factor.
>
> And of course, the main question is, How can i fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> -john
>
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