Re: changing back to administrator



Actually, its CTRL-ALT-DEL twice, not three times, and this is only effective in XP Pro. For XP Home you must boot into Safe Mode to access the built in Administrator account.

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"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OHaaUP8lGHA.4712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boot the computer, at the log-in screen do a CTRL-ALT-DEL three times and
sign in as administrator.

"dagoelder" <dagoelder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:16569664-E445-4714-B69D-B5402BCDF5B6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
my son was screwing around and he has changed our account from admin to
limited and now i can not get it back to admin and it does not give me the
option to log in as a administrator to be able to change it back plz help
me
someone


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