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708976 2008-10-01 01:27:00 Hi Everyone

I went to run and typed "control userpasswords2", then went to Advanced Tab and clicked on "Advanced".

I wanted to enable the Administrator account (I changed the name to System Administrator) and I did, but I couldn't see it in the Welcome Screen. So I deselected Use the welcome screen option in User accounts and logged on to Administrator (System Administrator) and it was fine. Then I switched back to Welcome Screen and it was there, but when I logged off it disappeared. How can you keep it there?

Thanks 		mathsgood (13356)
708977 2008-10-01 02:01:00 you didn't mention what OS BUT ( copied from a couple of sites - I'm not that good to remember off hand :p :lol: )

In XP

1. Launch Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t in the Registry Editor.
3. Double-click the Administrator key in the right pane.
4. If the Administrator key doesn’t exist, right-click on the above tree in the pane, choose New, DWORD Value, name it Administrator and press .
5. Type 1 in the “Value data” box, and press .
6. Reboot


For vista

1. Click on Vista Start button, then go to Control Panel.
2. Inside Control Panel, click on System and Maintenance link, follow by Administrator Tools at the bottom.
3. An Administrator Tools window appears. From there, click on Local Security Policy applet.
4. Alternatively, type secpol.msc in Start Search box and press Enter.
5. Click Continue on User Account Control’s Windows needs your permission to continue running Microsoft Management Console (MMC) dialog box.
6. On the left pane of Local Security Policy MMC, expand Security Settings (should be opened by default), then expand Local Policies.
7. Click on Security Options branch.
8. Double click on Accounts: Administrator account status setting, then select Enabled radio button on Local Security Setting tab of Properties window.
9. Click on OK button.
10. Log off, switch user of restart your computer to logon with activated Administrator account. 		wainuitech (129)
708978 2008-10-01 06:38:00 Sorry about not telling you my OS; my OS is Windows XP.

Unfortunately, I tried your way and it doesn't work

Thanks anyway 		mathsgood (13356)
708979 2008-10-01 06:59:00 Why don't you just create another Admin account? :) jwil1 (65)
708980 2008-10-01 08:19:00 Hmmm Thats a bit Odd, I just tried it here on this XP PC, and it worked perfectly, Mind you this is XP Pro.

I'll try it on one of my workshop XP Hm PC's in the morning and let you know what did or didn't happen. 		wainuitech (129)
708981 2008-10-01 19:35:00 Okay - just done a bit more looking, and trying If you have XP home you cant get the administrators account to show/log in from on the desktop when in normal start up mode.

You only have can see it all the time if you start in safe mode - obviously one of the features unavailable in XP Hm that is in XP Pro - Learn something every day - mind you I normally only go into the admin account in safe mode any way. 		wainuitech (129)
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