I also tried opening safe mode; same lockout result. Safe wth command prompt
didn't work either. I don't have my official copy of xp installation cd,
just another copy that was installed on another pc in my house. Will that
help to have it??

"George" wrote:

I was trying to clean up logins on my home pc and ended up locking myself
out. I will try to explain everything I did below; hopefully enough info for
someone to help me...

First I had gone to run: "Control Password2" and found that there were some
extra accounts there that I had not seen in the Control Panel of XP. I
deleted one of those that I hadn't seen before. It had my name spelled
wrong. I remembered seeing my name spelled correctly too, and also
ADMINISTRATORS with an s at the end. So there seemed to be other accounts
available.

Then I saw some screen saying to restart my computer in order to delete the
account I had deleted earlier.

As soon as I restarted, that same annoying misspelled login that I tried to
delete popped up again, and it insisted on a password. We have never used
passwords for any logins in my house!!!

When I tried "Administrator," it said I could not log on because of an
"account restriction."

I am stuck because we have never used any passwords ever. Any help to get
me back in would be appreciated. I would be most thankful, especially on
this Thanksgiving day...