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| Thread ID: 96779 | 2009-01-22 08:16:00 | Windows won't log on | karbren (14078) | Press F1 |
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| 741132 | 2009-01-22 08:16:00 | I had Windows Steady State installed on my computer to which didn't do much good for what is should do. Anyway I deleted it off through Add/Remove, so gone no problem I thought. When my kids restarted it this morning it came up with Windows Log On with username and password. I have never put anything on as there was no reason too. Stalemate. Then I downloaded ultimate boot cd and burnt it on to a cd then tried to boot my PC. It came up with missing operating system. I can't afford to lose what I have on there. Is there any solution to remedy this or not? | karbren (14078) | ||
| 741133 | 2009-01-22 20:09:00 | You can't have a missing O/S if it wanyted a password the first time. There are a few programs available to alter a password. OPHcrack, Windows Password changer and so on. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 741134 | 2009-01-22 20:29:00 | "I can't afford to lose what I have on there." Get someone that knows what they are doing to save it before you try to fix the problem. Alway backup important data. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 741135 | 2009-01-22 20:32:00 | Is it the Ultimate BootCD or Ultimate Bootcd4 Windows - two different programs ? When you uninstalled Steady state - did you return all the setting to standard before uninstalling it ? if not then that may be the problem. What you can try is start the PC keep tapping F8 - select Safe mode - log in with the administrator account, go into Control Panel / User Accounts, locate your normal account, select change password, and change to something it else, reboot and try to log in normally. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 741136 | 2009-01-23 08:29:00 | I only noted 2 settings that I did not return to standard and that was administrator and guest but these weren't a problem before I installed Windows Steady State. I downloaded the right Boot cd for windows but it did not burn correctly. Luckily I had a friend who downloaded and burnt one too thus I installed it changed the password only to find I couldn't log on with administrator. I got in with Guest but as you know had limited use. I started it again in safe mode and discovered I had two administrators and couldn't log in with the computer administrator. I logged in on the second one but now I need to know how delete the second one so there is no confusion. Any ideas as I can't seem to do anything because some tabs/boxes were faded out thus leaving me a problem. | karbren (14078) | ||
| 741137 | 2009-01-25 05:25:00 | Problem now seemingly solved but need to get rid of one administrator. For some reason I had to create another one as now it has all that I have put on here. Can I delete the original one and not have it interfere with anything? | karbren (14078) | ||
| 741138 | 2009-01-26 05:00:00 | Computer back to normal, but can someone tell me when you delete one administrator ( 1 of 2) does it save all you put on there? | karbren (14078) | ||
| 741139 | 2009-01-26 05:11:00 | By Rights you should only have 1 REAL administrator account, Windows XP has a safe guard built in - it is not possible to delete the real administrator account, its normally hidden - while you can delete accounts with admin privileges, the Actual Admin account is built in. What you may have deleted is a "fake" Admin account created by steady state. If there was any data wanted in the account that was deleted it may be recoverable, but normally when an account is deleted it asks if you want to keep or delete the data. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 741140 | 2009-01-26 05:18:00 | I still have 2 administrator accounts and like you say the real admin account is hidden I have a second one with all my changes on it but need to know if that matters or not also? | karbren (14078) | ||
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