Administrator account

I'm unable to get the administrator account to come up in
control panel/users' accts in safe mode - as I used to.
What am I forgetting?
Thanks

I'm unable to get the administrator account to come up in
control panel/users' accts in safe mode - as I used to.
What am I forgetting?
Thanks

I have a problem, I am the administrator account user but
it tells me I'm limited user. How can I change myself
back to administrator account user?, I dont know how to
do this and I dont knoe how it changed from administrator
to limited user can anyone help me! my email address is:
ms7lopez@aol.com
home phone:210-675-9169
thanks,
Maria Lopez

It's much safer to NOT give out your personal information.....I hope you
find the answer to your problem!

"maria lopez" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a problem, I am the administrator account user but
> it tells me I'm limited user. How can I change myself
> back to administrator account user?, I dont know how to
> do this and I dont knoe how it changed from administrator
> to limited user can anyone help me! my email address is:
> ms7lopez@aol.com
> home phone:210-675-9169
> thanks,
> Maria Lopez

quite correct patty yet you did her no favours by
reposting that info in your reply

ceedee

"Patty" <notgonnagetit@novirus.com> wrote in message
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> It's much safer to NOT give out your personal information.....I hope you
> find the answer to your problem!
>
> "maria lopez" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0a5901c39d76$af26c040$a001280a@phx.gbl...

>
>
>

First off, you really shouldn't use the adminstrator account for your
normal use. You should keep that account for use only when it's needed
and do your internet browsing and all with a limited account because for
most of your internet activites you won't need administrator priviledges.

On Control Panel, you'll see USER ACCOUNTS, click here, select the
account name that you want to manage and you'll have a list of choices
including CHANGE ACCOUNT TYPE which is the one you want.

Problem is, I imagine that you'll have to have administrator priviledges
to be able to change an account to administrator. But the USER
ACCOUNTS screen will list all accounts along with their type and perhaps
that knowledge will help you.

If you are unable to access ANY administrator account then the only
solution that I know of, is to reinstall Windows. Someone who knows more
than I may also know differently.

I have created 5 users on my family pc. I need to log in
as "administrator" to retrieve old email messages which
didnt appear when I imported them into my new profile in
my newly created user account.

the "administrator" account no longer appears on the user
log in menu

how do I log back in to this account?

At the welcome screen, hit ctrl-alt-del twice in succession.

You will then see the windows 2000 style logon window where you can manually
enter a userid and pw.

unless you renamed the administrator account, the userid should be
"administrator" w/o the quotes.

The password is whatever you had it at before, or blank by default.

Hope this helps.

--


Frank Bachman
(Grumpy Aero Guy)


"mich" <michgia@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> I have created 5 users on my family pc. I need to log in
> as "administrator" to retrieve old email messages which
> didnt appear when I imported them into my new profile in
> my newly created user account.
>
> the "administrator" account no longer appears on the user
> log in menu
>
> how do I log back in to this account?

BTW....it's good practice to have two accounts that have administrator
priviliges.

If you're one of the 5 accounts, go ahead and make YOUR account one of the
administrator accounts as well.

Then, your account can do administrative things, and the "hidden" acount is
still there in the "background".


.... my $0.05

--


Frank Bachman
(Grumpy Aero Guy)


"mich" <michgia@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:088001c3de9c$e3962c00$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> I have created 5 users on my family pc. I need to log in
> as "administrator" to retrieve old email messages which
> didnt appear when I imported them into my new profile in
> my newly created user account.
>
> the "administrator" account no longer appears on the user
> log in menu
>
> how do I log back in to this account?