Unable to get into my adminstration account.

[bronco7]

It would help if you gave more info on system. Even some
MS routines will not work on certain units. Last resort,
non-destruct recovery followed by full-destruct recovery.
>-----Original Message-----
>About two weeks ago, I lost my "adminstrative account"
on my computer which uses Windows XP. I have only been
able to use the "guest" account. However, from the guest
account, I cannot make any adminstrative changes. I have
been unable to resinstall XP or to install any upgrades.
>
>Bert
>.
>

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Please describe what you mean by "lost". You must have at least one admin
level account, the system will not allow for deletion of all of them. If you
have only one and cannot get into the system because you lost the password,
then that's a different story.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
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Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"bvkom19" > wrote in message
...
> About two weeks ago, I lost my "adminstrative account" on my computer
which uses Windows XP. I have only been able to use the "guest" account.
However, from the guest account, I cannot make any adminstrative changes. I
have been unable to resinstall XP or to install any upgrades.
>
> Bert

[Alex Nichol]

bvkom19 wrote:

>About two weeks ago, I lost my "adminstrative account" on my computer which uses Windows XP. I have only been able to use the "guest" account. However, from the guest account, I cannot make any adminstrative changes. I have been unable to resinstall XP
or to install any upgrades.


This is where the reserve, emergency account called Administrator comes
in. Boot, hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black; take Safe Mode, There
will then be an icon for Administrator on the Welcome screen. (If not,
hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice and enter the explicit name
Administrator
and leave the password blank)

In that, you can make a new replacement account with Admin status for
day to day admin use - and perhaps a Limited account for your normal
working

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)