Re: administrators password
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 07/12/03
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:20:24 -0600
Greetings --
Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with this situation. Only
you, your father-in-law, or someone else to whom you've given free
physical access to the PC could have set the Administrator's password.
Whenever WinXP is installed on a computer, two user accounts are
automatically created - Administrator and Guest. By default, the
Guest account is disabled, and isn't pertinent now, in any case.
During the installation, WinXP Pro will ask the installer to designate
the Administrator's password, but WinXP Home will not do so. By
default, the Administrator's password is left blank until the PC owner
sets it.
Once any additional user accounts have been created, the
Administrator account will no longer be displayed on the Welcome
Screen. This is a default security feature that may, or may not, be
needed in your specific situation. By design, the only way to log
into the Administrator account of WinXP Home is to reboot into Safe
Mode. For WinXP Pro, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice at the Welcome
Screen will produce the standard login dialog box.
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "cecil searcy" <csearcy@qosi.net> wrote in message news:05a601c34836$34f76c10$a401280a@phx.gbl... > both my father law and I bought windows xp home upgrade > and were never given an adminstrators password and cannot > get ino the repair section of setup without the password- > How can we be expected to work on our systems without the > admisistrators password-this seems to be something that > microsoft keeps secret from user-Microsoft should allow > us to have our password-is it possible to figure out what > password they used or is it a forever secret?
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