Administrator Account - User Name / Password Problem

I don't know how I could be so stupid. I bought a PC with
WINDOWS-XP pre-installed. New to WINDOWS-XP,I then set up
an administrator account with a user name like "Admin Acct
Alex" or similar. Unfortunately I did not write down the
exact name on a sheet of paper for remembering it.
When I tried to log on to the administrator account by
using every thinkable combination of the name I might have
entered, I did not succeed. I had hoped that entering just
the password would be sufficient to get access to the
system. I definitely know the exact spelling of the
password I had entered, because I use this password for
many other purposes.

What can I do? Would I actually have to run the "Recovery
CD-ROM that came with the PC" and start all over again?

Alex

Hi,

Start/run control userpasswords2

Look at the list of user accounts.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Alex" <euroserve@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:05f201c3650a$212d96a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...

> I don't know how I could be so stupid. I bought a PC with
> WINDOWS-XP pre-installed. New to WINDOWS-XP,I then set up
> an administrator account with a user name like "Admin Acct
> Alex" or similar. Unfortunately I did not write down the
> exact name on a sheet of paper for remembering it.
> When I tried to log on to the administrator account by
> using every thinkable combination of the name I might have
> entered, I did not succeed. I had hoped that entering just
> the password would be sufficient to get access to the
> system. I definitely know the exact spelling of the
> password I had entered, because I use this password for
> many other purposes.
>
> What can I do? Would I actually have to run the "Recovery
> CD-ROM that came with the PC" and start all over again?
>
> Alex
>