Guest Paul Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 I must preface this conversation with the fact that I am maybe an intermediate computer user. That being said. I tried to set up multiple User Accounts on my home PC (running Windows XP). I was orginally set up as the Administrator and then created a User Account for my wife and set up this account with administrator rights and gave it a user name of Erin. The problem I have now is that I only see the Erin user account and the Guest user account and cannot access the orginal user account named Administrator. As a result, I cannot access any of my files, Itunes, etc. Any help guideance would be greatly appreciated.
Guest Mike Lowery Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: User Set up http://windowsxp.mvps.org/admins.htm "Paul" <Paul @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:47F80D97-391D-4E06-B4EE-FA111977BB5C@microsoft.com... >I must preface this conversation with the fact that I am maybe an > intermediate computer user. That being said. > > I tried to set up multiple User Accounts on my home PC (running Windows XP). > I was orginally set up as the Administrator and then created a User Account > for my wife and set up this account with administrator rights and gave it a > user name of Erin. > > The problem I have now is that I only see the Erin user account and the > Guest user account and cannot access the orginal user account named > Administrator. > > As a result, I cannot access any of my files, Itunes, etc. > > Any help guideance would be greatly appreciated. > > >
Guest Lem Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: User Set up Paul wrote: > I must preface this conversation with the fact that I am maybe an > intermediate computer user. That being said. > > I tried to set up multiple User Accounts on my home PC (running Windows XP). > I was orginally set up as the Administrator and then created a User Account > for my wife and set up this account with administrator rights and gave it a > user name of Erin. > > The problem I have now is that I only see the Erin user account and the > Guest user account and cannot access the orginal user account named > Administrator. > > As a result, I cannot access any of my files, Itunes, etc. > > Any help guideance would be greatly appreciated. > > > The account named "Administrator" is intended to be a last-resort tool for recovering from various problems. It is meant to be NOT used for day-to-day operation. Therefore, as soon as you create another account with administrative rights, the Administrator account no longer appears on the Welcome screen. It is available in Safe Mode or (in XP Pro with Fast User Switching turned off, by pressing ctrl-alt-del twice). You should create an account for yourself with a name other than "administrator." Move your data to the new profile: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151 If you have permission problems accessing the data from the new profile, see "take ownership" of files http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 I'm not sure what various applications will do, particularly iTunes. You may want to check in Apple's iTunes for Windows forum for advice. Ideally, from a security point of view, neither you nor other users should routinely run using an account with administrative privileges. However, almost every Win XP user does so -- that's a major reason that Microsoft developed the User Account Control feature in Vista. -- Lem MS MVP -- Networking To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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