Re: unable to logon as administrator

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 11/03/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:06:57 -0800

Hold down the shift key as Windows boots and you will be allowed to
choose your login. 

-- 
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Mertyl <loonladie@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using XP Pro and am obviously not a pro!
> I have 2 users set up on my home  system--an administrator
> and another user(both me, just my split personality!). The
> system logs on automatically to the user but nowhere gives
> me the option to sign on as the administrator. How do I
> sign on as the administrator of my own computer?! .

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