Re: HELP - My son has taken control of administrator privileges and disallowed acces

From: null (null@pc.net)
Date: 01/17/03 

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:47:07 -0500
From: null <null@pc.net>

Mike Brannigan [MSFT] wrote:
> J Fletcher,
>
> While a lot of respondents have provided various comments etc.
>
> You are faced with 2 basic choices to rectify this.
> 1. Get you child to logon and give you account back it's admin rights
> and then logon as this now admin account, remove his, reset your
> password (just in case) and have a chat with them.
> 2. Check to see if the real "Administrator" account has been
> compromised. If you have Windows XP Professional you just press
> CTRL-ALT-DEL twice quickly at the welcome screen and logon as
> Administrator - the password is the one you set while installing the
> product, or if it came preinstalled it may be password or just leave it
> blank. (note your child may know about this and may have changed it)
> Once in - do step 1.
> For Windows XP Home Edition - I believe you need to boot into safe mode
> (by pressing F8 at the start of the boot process) and then login as
> above as Administrator
>

He should also create a Password Reset Disk so his son can't do it
again. Of course, if his son is that clever, he probably made a reset
disk for himself and stashed it away.

If all else fails, a reinstall will work, but he'll lose all his data if
he does this.

-the small one