Re: built-in administrator accopunt not working

Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281992&Product=winxp

Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Doug Knox]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Ari" wrote:

| I was using the built-in administrator account to do some maintenance, and
| somehow i disabled it and when i logged out i could not log back in, that is
| the only administrator account on the computer and the highest rank that
| exists is my power user account and i have tried a lot of things but i have
| no access, is there anything i can do to recover this, because withough
| logging in to an administrator account i cant recieve crutial updates and
| install new security. Please Help
|
|
| Thank You

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