As far as I know it isn't possible to delete the built-in Administrator
account. Probably you changed the password to it or you disabled it.
This might help: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
John
Teeder wrote:
If someone could help me with this I would be forever grateful! How can you
get into windows 2000 (stand alone) after you have deleted all of the users
that were loaded including the administrator. There used to be two users set
up on the PC, but we no longer needed them. I just wanted the PC to go back
to opening straight into windows with no prompting for a username or
password. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Re: Lost Admin PW in XP home ... people at work told me this was due to my d/lding normal XP updates.... Simply going to Windows Update and patching .Net would have taken care of that for you. ... Or you were able to get into the built-in Administrator account but for some reason couldn't change your user account's password? ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
Re: Windows XP created its own passwords?? ... corrupt file and it said to run scan disk.... I NEVER created passwords on the other profiles!... hitting 'enter' without a password won't let me through to Windows.... Log in to the built-in Administrator Account and re-set the ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Windows XP created its own passwords?? ... corrupt file and it said to run scan disk.... I NEVER created passwords on the other profiles!... hitting 'enter' without a password won't let me through to Windows.... Log in to the built-in Administrator Account and re-set the passwords in ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Administrator Not Available ... Please quote at least some of the post to which you are replying. ...WinXP Pro completely and reinstall (and if this is the case, ... Arnie - If you are getting the Welcome Screen when you start Windows,... brother was using the built-in Administrator account for daily use (not ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
Re: group policy ... I recommend you to re-install the Windows XP OS anyway since the computer ... Logon using the built-in administrator account and remove the ... > admin rights to all users even local admin account.... (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
