Re: lost administrator user account

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 01/03/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:51:59 -0700

Greetings --

    As you've learned, 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. 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 

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"tkirk3@cox.net" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:02cf01c3d187$a7d2dc30$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I had a single user account which (I thought) did not
> have a password for Windows XP.  The other day I added a
> new user account with a password.  I logged on with the
> new user account and was allowed limited access because
> the original account was the adminstrative account
> (apparently).  Now I cannot log in with the original
> account.  The original account is completely gone.  I
> tried restoring to a previous logon but it will not allow
> me access even at the dos prompt.  Dell support was no
> help.  I tried to reinstall windows XP, both repair and
> total reinstall but the repair did not restore the
> account and the total reinstall would not work.  I do
> have back-up of my data files so I could format the
> entire hard drive but would prefer not to do so.  Can
> anyone help?  Thanks.

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