RE: built in 'administrator' disabled. XP

From: pauly [MSFT] (pauly_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:45:42 GMT

Dear poster,

Your built-in Administrator account is disabled and you do not have another
to use to reverse the process.

This is unfortunate and usually unrecoverable. There may be a workaround.
You might try performing an in-place upgrade of your Windows XP install.
Setup will leave most or all of your settings for installed applications
intact and just *might* re-enable the built-in Admin account. I have not
tested this and it may not work - but trying this would be preferable to
try it before considering a format and reinstall.

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Paul Hayes, MCSE
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation
pauly@online.microsoft.com

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| From: =?Utf-8?B?YmFzaGFy?= <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Subject: built in 'administrator' disabled. XP
| Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:16:05 -0800
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| due to some problem that have been occuring on my pc, i had to disable
the built in administrator account.
i use the pc with an another account that i made with administrator
privliges.
for some reason this account is now a "guest account", i dont know how that
happend.

my pc now has no administrator account that i can use.
i use Windows XP Pro.

please help. it's annoying when you have no privileges in your own pc.

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