Re: I deleted my administrator in XP Pro

I have a PC that will not let me change the IP settings in XPPro as I do not
have sufficient rights. I am using the built in admin account in safe mode
with networking. several virus, spy and malware sweeps show nothing, it's a
PITA.

TWK

"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OKuQT2$XHHA.992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ilduce wrote:
Who said you cannot delete the administer in XP Pro. When I purchased my
computer from Sony, I never set up an administrator just myself
(fortunately I had attempted to create a remote user a while ago with
limited access and only this user account allowes me to log on). While
in Computer Management I deleted my user name (don't ask me why) which I
guess was the only user that had administrator privleges. After numerous
attempts to fix this fopa and since I could not log on as admin, I found
purchased a program which allows me to reset (clear) the Administrator
password. At the Welcome Window I hit Ctl-Alt-Del but when I hit enter
with no passoword in the field, it still won't let me in.

I've tried to find a way to restore to the time before I deleted my User
Account but haven't found a way without the Admin privilages.

Any ideas out there

Ilduce

You cannot delete the built-in Administrator account. Your user account
was not the built-in Administrator account. You are doing something wrong
and you had no need to purchase anything to get into the system.

The normal way to deal with this situation is to either do Ctrl-Alt-Del at
the Welcome Screen to get the classic logon box. Then type "Administrator"
(not your user account name and without the quotes) and whatever password
you set for the built-in Administrator account. If you didn't set a
password, then leave it blank.

If that doesn't work, this is a free program that will indeed reset the
Administrator (or any other user) password to a blank:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

You need to create a bootable cd with this (or bootable floppy) and then
boot with the media you created. Then just follow the instructions.

If this doesn't work for you or is not easy for you to understand (and
that's OK), then take your machine to a professional computer repair shop
and they will be able to get into your machine. This will not be your
local version of BigStoreUSA.


Malke
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