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| Thread ID: 43630 | 2004-03-21 10:56:00 | XP Pro install | JohnD (509) | Press F1 |
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| 224216 | 2004-03-21 10:56:00 | Yesterday I had to fix a school PC that was running a pukarooed Win95 - replaced OS with XP Pro from the MofEd purchased copies (first time I have installed XP). Positive thing was that it worked straight away with my Linux samba server and internet gateway. However a couple of things - 1. part way through the install in typical Win2k fashion it asked me for an Administrator account password. When the install finished it asked for accounts to be made, which I did. All the accounts get (annoyingly) shown on the login screen - but where is my original Admin account? It seems to have gone - what did I do wrong? 2. Login seems to be very slow - Celeron 1.2G with 256M RAM. PC has great big rests with half of the pasword entered. Any ideas? Personal opinion here (from a predominately Linux user) - so much for Bill's "secure computing" - the default (for the uninitiated if you have only one account) with XP seems to be an admin equivalent account!! |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 224217 | 2004-03-21 11:54:00 | In the control panel under users you can change to a classic login style (like win2k pro). That would remove the users from the welcome screen and let you get back into your admin account. If its going really slow, it may have a lot of things to load up on boot, or not enough ram. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 224218 | 2004-03-21 12:21:00 | but where is my original Admin account? It seems to have gone - what did I do wrong? nothing The default administrator account is hidden if you ever have to repair xp you will be asked for that password. I have never tried to use the administrator login as when I install xp I always make a install administrator account so that when everything is working on that account I just login as an another admin and copy all setup admins folder contents into the default user folder then all everytime a new user logins they get the desktop That I wish them to get and if they are not a admin user they are volitle (deleted on logoff) so they are treated as a new user on next logon |
beama (111) | ||
| 224219 | 2004-03-21 12:35:00 | Beema is correct, the main adminstrator account is there but doesn't show on the login screen. You can either switch to the old style of loging in or download XP Powertoys TweakUI from microsoft and in there is an option to display the main Administrator account on the login screen. To find the account you can right click on My computer, choose manage and then user accounts and viola there it should be along with any others you made ;-) |
Odin (227) | ||
| 224220 | 2004-03-22 00:35:00 | Thanks - makes sense! But I can't help wondering if this is "dumbing down" with fancy GUI screens? - why hide what has been the standard way of doing things for some time with a fancy new screen? | JohnD (509) | ||
| 224221 | 2004-03-22 04:52:00 | Try pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del twice at the login screen.... ...I feel your pain John.. I really do... ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 224222 | 2004-03-22 04:55:00 | > If its going really slow, it may have a lot of things > to load up on boot, or not enough ram . Just as a side-comment on that note, When I last ran WinXP on my AthlonXP 1700+, 512MB Ram, it sucked majorly when it came to logging in . Two minutes (No exaggerations) . . . I ran a spybot check, avg was up-to-date, and NOTHING (Except Avg) was loading at startup . Un-installing AVG Temporarily made no difference . My exployers laptop is currently like this . We are yet to find out why . . . . . |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 224223 | 2004-03-22 05:00:00 | Sometimes the profile can get a bit bogged down. A new profile often speeds things up heaps, but I fail to see how that would affect a new install. Also classic login (not using welcome screen) logs in at least twice as quick. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 224224 | 2004-03-22 06:02:00 | >- so much for Bill's "secure computing" I forgot to put here that the default in XP seems to be to make new accounts with no passwords!!! So much for "secure computing". |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 224225 | 2004-03-22 06:28:00 | Thanks for the advice PoWa, I'll give that a try :-) both times its been using the Welcome Screen.... Cheers Chill. |
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