Re: Lost admin privledges......

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang36@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/02 

From: "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang36@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 03:41:30 -0600

Just think, if we could make a living doing this...used to make a living
flying airplanes and a few famous people around. Glad to help. You owe me
$10,000,000 when you win the lottery, until then charge it to the dust and
let the rain settle it.

BTW, I've got a duckweigh for sale.

"Bob" <shayarizona@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1374e01c2939b$53a56f40$89f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA01...
| Jim, many thanks. I figured I could get the answer here
| and you provided it, what I can't believe is it only took
| 7 minutes! That's amazing. Thanks so much!
| >-----Original Message-----
| >They were likely playing with the computer and changed
| the new admin account
| >to a limited account. The Administrator default account
| is hidden. Do a
| >cold boot and hit F8 to get a logon window and boot to
| safe mode...the admin
| >account will be shown, use the proper password and get
| in, reset everything
| >and be sure they both have limited user accounts for day
| to day use.
| >Dell may have used a blank password or have some
| other...you can get the
| >password Dell used when they shipped the computer, hope
| it hasn't been
| >changed.
| >
| >"Bob" <shayarizona@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| >news:136c001c29397$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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