Admin Account Vanished

Posted: 08-14-2003, 03:10 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a home-network: two computers, one of them as the
>Admin pc.
>
>During install of Windows XP Professional, I created on
>this computer three accounts: Admin; Guest (which I
later
>deleted), and Guest2, which is active.
>
>Problem: I "lost" my admin account! Now I can only use
>the Guest2 account, which has no admin privileges,
>therefore, I can't do anything on the system!
>
>Any ideas how to fix this problem?
Reboot to Safe Mode, select Administrator, leave password
blank.
Then go to User Accounts in Control Panel.
Select the user and change the password.
If you are using Windows XP Pro and have encrypted data,
you may
permanently lose access to the encrypted data.
>.
>
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