Re: administrator logon in home edition

From: Bussarin Vichayanonda (bvichayanonda_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/28/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:04:49 -0700

Thanks Bruce. I've been trying to find out what's wrong with my XP Home
machine as I couldn't logon as Administrator and I know for sure the
Administrator account is in there.

Again, thank you.

Bussarin V.

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net> wrote in message
news:valq9fahbqja87@corp.supernews.com...
> Greetings --
>
> That's the way it's supposed to be, on WinXP Home. Only WinXP Pro
> allows access to the Administrator account via the 2*(Ctrl+Alt+Del)
> method.
>
> Bruce Chambers
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> "Andrew" <webmaster-37@37.com> wrote in message
> news:007701c30c2c$d51567b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> > i can't log on to administrator without going into safe
> > mode, and i've tried using the ctrl-alt-del "trick" at the
> > welcome screen, and it still won't let me on! Is this
> > feature only in XP Pro, or is there something wrong?
>
>

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