Re: Lost admin privledges......

From: Bob (shayarizona@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/02 

From: "Bob" <shayarizona@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:24:45 -0800

Jim, many thanks. I figured I could get the answer here
and you provided it, what I can't believe is it only took
7 minutes! That's amazing. Thanks so much!
>-----Original Message-----
>They were likely playing with the computer and changed
the new admin account
>to a limited account. The Administrator default account
is hidden. Do a
>cold boot and hit F8 to get a logon window and boot to
safe mode...the admin
>account will be shown, use the proper password and get
in, reset everything
>and be sure they both have limited user accounts for day
to day use.
>Dell may have used a blank password or have some
other...you can get the
>password Dell used when they shipped the computer, hope
it hasn't been
>changed.
>
>"Bob" <shayarizona@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:136c001c29397$d686d2e0$89f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA01...
>| A friend from work just bought a used Dell from another
>| co-worker. I attempted to set it up for her so she was
>| the administrator and her daughter would have a simple
>| user account. I changed the original owners
>| username/password to the new owner and also set up the
>| user account. It worked fine for awhile but now I'm all
>| of a sudden locked out of the admin account. The new
>| admin account is listed as "limited"...any help would
be
>| greatly appreciated.
>
>
>.
>

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