user accounts

> You should


i should use?
i do now and then but i would like to login automaticaly as an administrator
like earlier. i dont want any other accounts...


regards
Andre

Hi Andre

Your PC could be a security risk if you use the original Admin Account.
However, type or copy/paste the following into Start>Run

control userpasswords2

and then uncheck 'Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer.'. Click Apply - you will have to know the Administrator's
password at this stage. Follow the onscreen prompts.

You can logon automatically if you create an account with Admin. privileges:

From Start>Run type in

control userpasswords2

then uncheck 'Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer' and click 'Apply'. On the next screen - 'Automatically Log On' -
delete the name 'Administrator' from the User name box and enter your
account name and then the password in the next two boxes. OK your way out
and then reboot your system.

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"Andre" <andre_cut_hull@poczta_cut_.fm> wrote in message
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| > You should
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| i should use?
| i do now and then but i would like to login automaticaly as an
administrator
| like earlier. i dont want any other accounts...
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| regards
| Andre
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|

1. Downloaded SP-2
2. Had Admiistrator / Limited User problems upon boot.
Only the Administrator would boot up.
3. My problem is I now have lost Administrator function,
I cannot use system restore, I cannot reload XP because I
downloaded SP-2.

Bottomline my computer has no administrator, only "Limted
User capability. Can anyone help?

Have you tried to log into Safe Mode yet? You should then be able to log
into the Administrator account. Once you have Administrator rights you
should be a able to change those of other accounts to Administrator too.
Also, you can use Tweak UI to force Administrator to show up on the welcome
screen, if you don't want to change the present account(s). Just look under
Logon in Tweak UI. You can download it from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...s/default.mspx

Nik

PS. For those used to using Tweak UI in earlier versions of Windows, it no
longer shows up in the Control Panel. You have to find it under 'PowerToys
for Windows XP' on the Start Menu.


"Chuck mcCurley" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:142601c48c39$de6d5c30$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> 1. Downloaded SP-2
> 2. Had Admiistrator / Limited User problems upon boot.
> Only the Administrator would boot up.
> 3. My problem is I now have lost Administrator function,
> I cannot use system restore, I cannot reload XP because I
> downloaded SP-2.
>
> Bottomline my computer has no administrator, only "Limted
> User capability. Can anyone help?

I am using windows xp pro sp2. All of a sudden certain changes have appeared
in my pc. User accounts screen is blank. Another entry called administrator
has appeared in the administrators group. I seem to have lost my adm. rights.
Help and support centre is also not working. Please help.

Devashish,

See if a System Restore rollback fixes the problem:
Ref: http://www.winxptutor.com/rollback.htm

See also:

User Accounts applet is completely blank:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/useracc.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Devashish" <Devashish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:703B2903-DE0E-4D83-8542-EF8B1EC1A575@microsoft.com...
I am using windows xp pro sp2. All of a sudden certain changes have appeared
in my pc. User accounts screen is blank. Another entry called administrator
has appeared in the administrators group. I seem to have lost my adm.
rights.
Help and support centre is also not working. Please help.

In configuring my user accounts I have been left with only two accounts,
a named account and a guest account. Neither the named account or the
guest account is designated "administrator" what have I done and how can
I fix it? When I select each account to modify it, there are no options
to change the account type from limited to administrator.
Howard Graham

Hi Howard,

This is where the hidden account called 'Administrator' comes in. Boot,
hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black to get the Menu and take Safe
Mode. That should then at 'Welcome' include an icon for
'Administrator'; if not hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice to get a logon dialog,
enter the explicit name Administrator and assume that password is null,
Enter immediately. From that, Start - Run type

control userpasswords2

and you can select any user account, or create new accounts, and Reset
Passwords.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

"Howard Graham" wrote

> In configuring my user accounts I have been left with only two
> accounts, a named account and a guest account. Neither the named
> account or the guest account is designated "administrator" what have I
> done and how can I fix it? When I select each account to modify it,
> there are no options to change the account type from limited to
> administrator.
> Howard Graham