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| Thread ID: 49829 | 2004-10-02 02:31:00 | Admin a/c relegated to "Guest"....help!! | dibbly (5461) | Press F1 |
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| 277468 | 2004-10-02 02:31:00 | hi all, just logged on this morning to find that my admin account has been relegated to "guest". I am the only user of the machine, do not get into music sharing or online gaming. I am stuck, cannot restore or do any type of admin tasks. In process of runnin a/v, spybot etc....and googling my heart out. Any clues to what has happened here???? cheers dib |
dibbly (5461) | ||
| 277469 | 2004-10-02 03:22:00 | Have you tried starting in safe mode and seeing what happens? | andy (473) | ||
| 277470 | 2004-10-02 03:52:00 | You could try log off from the start button and see if you can re-log on as administrator. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 277471 | 2004-10-02 04:15:00 | tried safemode...no joy the problem seems to be that my accounts have somehow changed from administrator ones to guest ones. how about trying to hack a new password or something??? |
dibbly (5461) | ||
| 277472 | 2004-10-02 04:53:00 | Why dont you just login as Administrator and change the accounts back? | Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 277473 | 2004-10-02 05:09:00 | Pete, When I have tried to do that XP home will not recognise the password. I reinstalled a few weeks ago, updates, security proggies all done. Yesterday I changed (in msconfig) a couple of things from start up. When I logged in this avvo, the system config. utility box popped up and said rah, rah, rah....when i clicked ok, it said access denied because i did not have admin rights..... Then when i checked my user account settings, its a guest account now, not admin like it should. So then i tried logging onto account "Administrator" with my password and windoze could not "verify". And thats where i am at present.... Can i try to reset the password on account "Administrator" ?? is there third party software I can use.... DIB |
dibbly (5461) | ||
| 277474 | 2004-10-02 05:11:00 | What are you doing loggin in as Admin? By default windows sets up a seperate account that has admin privalages | Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 277475 | 2004-10-02 05:31:00 | did you actually create a password for Administrator when you reinstalled. try logging in as Admin with no password. if successful, then change your own a/c from memory you don't actually get asked to create an adminstrator password on the home edition setup (could be wrong tho') |
45South (4769) | ||
| 277476 | 2004-10-02 05:32:00 | you may have to boot to safe mode in home to see the "real" admin a/c on the welcome screen | 45South (4769) | ||
| 277477 | 2004-10-02 05:52:00 | Ah, you didnt say XP Home originally, login is different to Pro, apparently you can't log on to the administrator account except in Safe Mode, as already stated Read these articles: support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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