Please HELP...Can't log into computer administrato

[Guest Jodi]

I have Windows Xp on my computer and we have never created new account users

we have also just used computer administrator. Last week, I made a new

account. Today I shut my computer down and when I booted back up, I only had

the chance to log into the new account I made, computer administrator is

gone! I cannot access any of my files, pictures, etc that I had saved on my

computer.

 

When I created the new account I did give it computer administrator rights

because it said I had to have at least one more account with the

administrator rights.

 

Can anyone help and tell me how I can log into my old account and where to

find it.

 

Thanks,

Jodi

[Guest Rey Santos]

RE: Please HELP...Can't log into computer administrato

 

Are you automatically logon? You see the Welcome screen instaead of the logon

screen?

Try this: Start > Run, type "control userpasswords2" (without the quotes).

Click to check the box "Users must enter auser name and password to use this

computer"

 

See this also:

How to Disable/Enable the Windows XP Welcome Screen

http://www.wikihow.com/Disable/Enable-the-Windows-XP-Welcome-Screen

 

--

Rey

 

 

"Jodi" wrote:

> I have Windows Xp on my computer and we have never created new account users

> we have also just used computer administrator. Last week, I made a new

> account. Today I shut my computer down and when I booted back up, I only had

> the chance to log into the new account I made, computer administrator is

> gone! I cannot access any of my files, pictures, etc that I had saved on my

> computer.

>

> When I created the new account I did give it computer administrator rights

> because it said I had to have at least one more account with the

> administrator rights.

>

> Can anyone help and tell me how I can log into my old account and where to

> find it.

>

> Thanks,

> Jodi

[Guest Nepatsfan]

Re: Please HELP...Can't log into computer administrato

 

"Jodi" <Jodi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:5CFB3B4B-2077-404E-9CE5-7DDB0EC0B2F1@microsoft.com...

>I have Windows Xp on my computer and we have never created new account users

> we have also just used computer administrator. Last week, I made a new

> account. Today I shut my computer down and when I booted back up, I only had

> the chance to log into the new account I made, computer administrator is

> gone! I cannot access any of my files, pictures, etc that I had saved on my

> computer.

>

> When I created the new account I did give it computer administrator rights

> because it said I had to have at least one more account with the

> administrator rights.

>

> Can anyone help and tell me how I can log into my old account and where to

> find it.

>

> Thanks,

> Jodi

 

 

I'm guessing that you're running XP Professional. As you've discovered, as soon

as you create an admin level user account, the built-in Administrator account

goes into hiding. To log on to this account, do the following.

 

Hit the Start button and click on Log Off. Log off from your new account. At the

Welcome screen, hit the Ctrl + Alt + Delete keys twice. This should bring up the

Log On to Windows dialog. Enter Administrator in the User name box and the

appropriate password.

 

Take a look at these articles if you want to have the Administrator account

displayed on the Welcome screen.

 

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP

How to login as Administrator in Windows XP

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/admins.htm

 

Courtesy of Doug Knox, MS-MVP

Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm

 

Keep in mind that the Administrator account should be reserved for emergencies.

 

Good luck

 

Nepatsfan