P.S. & BTW

(I don't know even if you get into your Admin acc. if it will solve your
problem, but it would have been my idea to avoid using safe-mode (if
possible) to correct malfunctions - it's seems limited to me. And, of
course, what works alright in safe-mode doesn't always guarantee that it
will also work in normal-mode ).

Other ways you could have accessed your Admin account...

1). Change (or add, if not present) this registry setting :


REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t]
"Administrator"=dword:00000001


....(or you could copy/paste the text above into notepad and save as a
[.reg] file.)

(Tip: if you enclose your chosen filename in "quotes" in the "Save As.."
box, you can prevent applications that will try to name file with it's own
default extension - like [.txt] for Notepad - even though you typed in -
[MyData.reg] notepad will save it as [MyData.reg.txt] - annoyingly.
Enclosing your chosen filename in "quotes" prevents this and forces the
application to do as it's told)

The above will make the Administrator account visible as an item on your
"Welcome Screen"...


2). Use the built-in "runas" function to run your "Services.msc"
(Microsoft Management Console file) which will give you your Admin rights
over it :

At the Command Prompt (type "cmd.exe" in the Run" box) type the following
to run "Local Services" as Admin...

runas /user:Administrator "c:\windows\system32\mmc.exe
c:\windows\system32\services.msc"

....*note - everything after the [/user:] parameter must be enclosed in
"quotes"

It will then ask for the Admin password - just press [ENTER] if the Admin
password has never been set.

Very best of good luck in sorting out your original problem - but at least
you now know a few ways of getting into your Administrator account than you
did before!

==

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




"Tim Meddick" wrote in message
...
William,

Do you normally get the "Welcome Screen" ?

Is the problem there is no "Administrator" listed on it ?

Then, one way is at the Welcome screen, press [Alt-Ctrl-Del] to bring up
the "classic" login dialogue box.....

*NB - On my XP machine, it's a little slow to bring up the login box, but
be a little patient accordingly. You may have to press [Alt-Ctrl-Del]
one more time if it has not appeared in over a minute's wait.....

==

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




"William Lurie" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Tim, but the only way I know of to log in as Administrator is
F8Safe mode.

Tim Meddick wrote:
Try logging in as Administrator and NOT in SAFE Mode...........

==

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




"William Lurie" wrote in message
...
While attempting to stop MSN Messenger from loading during startup, I
uncheck it from Startup list and get "Access denied while attempting
to
change a service. You may need to log on using Administrator Account
to
make changes". Booting to Safe Mode and signing in as Administrator
(and
only user), I still get that message. I figure there must be a KB
article on this..........