KenK wrote:
I tried to remone a startup program with msconfig and XP told me I had to
be administrator to do so. The system was a gift so I don't know which
choice was administrator. One is guest, the other two are the previous
owner's and his wife. I am using the previous owner choice when the system
starts.

Now what? His wife? Doubtful. Can I make myself administrator? I need to
remove that app and many others.

TIA

Here's a picture of some WinXP panels.

https://s8.postimg.org/86z8li9zp/accounts.gif

The one on the left, is in Control Panels.

The one on the right, can be reached via

control userpasswords2

The word "control" refers to control.exe,
and when issued by itself, it opens the
Control Panels.

control

Giving control.exe an argument, causes it to
open that particular panel.

Not all accounts on a computer are full accounts.
Some have no home directory. An account called
"Updatus" or similar, might belong to some NVidia
driver software. If you were thinking all the
accounts in there were created by humans, some
are side effects of software.

Paul