This is what we are trying to determine - whether there's a workaround to
starting Administrator account normally (i.e. *not* in safe-mode).

The documentation would have us believe that the Recovery Console's "set"
command is unavailable in XP Home edition, but with the addition of two
registry entries *is* perfectly useable.

So, if the commonly understood information about the limitations of XP Home
vs. XP Pro is erroneous on one occasion, why not more than once?.......

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"John John - MVP" wrote in message
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On 11/30/2010 1:40 PM, Don Phillipson wrote:
"William wrote in message
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Don Phillipson wrote:
"William wrote in message
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By adding and validating a Key in Registry, we have been able to
change
the Welcome Screen during Start-up so that it halts there, and allows
one to enter a User Name. I seem to recall from years ago, with
XP/Pro,
that the option for an Administrator account there, but I've been
unable
to do so with XP/Home. Is it that it cannot be done, or that I'm not
doing it right? We are aware of F8 and Safe Mode, but that leads in
an
entirely different direction.

Were this true (not checked) provision to add an Admin account at
login seems redundant -- since the OS enables any reboot to start
an Admin account (by Ctl-Alt-Del twice at login prompt we need
not provide a user name for such access.

What you seem to be saying is that I can *create* a new account (e.g.,
'Administrator') by indicating that name in the login box. I hadn't
tried
that.

Ctl-Alt-Del twice at login prompt does not create a new account.
It loads the (hidden) account for user "Administrator" created when
the OS was installed; i.e. it has always been there.

When you are at the Windows XP style Welcome screen hitting
Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice brings up the classic logon screen where you can
enter *any* username and password, it does not load any account as such.
The name of the last user who was logged on may be showing in the
username field if the option to show the last logged user on is enabled
in the registry. Also note that this does not work on XP Home, to login
with the Administrator account on XP Home you have to logon in Safe Mode.

John