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i was setting up account..and putting a password on my administrator, and
created a guest account.. the guest account now shows up and my administrator is invisible, and don't know how to retreave it.. pleas would someone help me.... |
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Hi,
To access the default administrator account: In WinXP Pro, hit ctrl+alt+delete twice at the logon screen and type it in. In WinXP Home, you must restart and enter Safe mode by hitting F8 at startup. The administrator logon will be one of the options. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "tecno79" wrote in message ... i was setting up account..and putting a password on my administrator, and created a guest account.. the guest account now shows up and my administrator is invisible, and don't know how to retreave it.. pleas would someone help me.... |
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Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups Be Smart! Protect Your PC! http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.mspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "tecno79" wrote: | i was setting up account..and putting a password on my administrator, and | created a guest account.. the guest account now shows up and my | administrator is invisible, and don't know how to retreave it.. pleas would | someone help me.... |
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"tecno79" wrote in message
... i was setting up account..and putting a password on my administrator, and created a guest account.. the guest account now shows up and my administrator is invisible, and don't know how to retreave it.. pleas would someone help me.... Depends on WHICH version of Windows XP that you use. For Windows XP Home, you must reboot into Safe Mode and then can login under the Administrator account. For Windows XP Professional, it depends if you are using the Fisher-Price "Welcome Screen" or the classic login screen. The Welcome Screen is NOT used if you log into a domain or if you configure Windows XP Pro to use the classic login screen. If you see the Welcome Screen, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del *twice* to get the classic login prompt to then enter Administrator (and its password). If using the classic login screen, just enter Administrator for the username and its password. -- __________________________________________________ __________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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Sorry Rick,
But I don't understand... le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:13:19 -0500, tu disais/you said:- Hi, To access the default administrator account: In WinXP Pro, hit ctrl+alt+delete twice at the logon screen and type it in. 'it'? What? The Administrator password? "Administrator"? I don't need to do this, but I'd like to be able to understand your answer. -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Salut/Hi Vanguard,
le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:55:27 -0600, tu disais/you said:- Depends on WHICH version of Windows XP that you use. For Windows XP Home, you must reboot into Safe Mode and then can login under the Administrator account. For Windows XP Professional, it depends if you are using the Fisher-Price "Welcome Screen" Fisher Price? Is that some kind of expertspeak way of being rude? -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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It refers to the icons that appear for each of the users. Unless you have
substituted personal pictures of the users of your computer, the idealized representations from the XP library appear. Some people refer to these with nicknames like "Fisher Price People" because of their resemblance to the roundheaded figures. It is neither 'expertspeak' or rudeness. Just shorthand. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Ian Hoare" wrote in message ... Salut/Hi Vanguard, le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:55:27 -0600, tu disais/you said:- Depends on WHICH version of Windows XP that you use. For Windows XP Home, you must reboot into Safe Mode and then can login under the Administrator account. For Windows XP Professional, it depends if you are using the Fisher-Price "Welcome Screen" Fisher Price? Is that some kind of expertspeak way of being rude? -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Ian Hoare wrote:
Sorry Rick, But I don't understand... le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:13:19 -0500, tu disais/you said:- Hi, To access the default administrator account: In WinXP Pro, hit ctrl+alt+delete twice at the logon screen and type it in. 'it'? What? The Administrator password? "Administrator"? I don't need to do this, but I'd like to be able to understand your answer. Type "administrator" (without the quotes), in the Username, and whatever password you have in the password box. If the version of XP came pre-installed, than there probably is no password - just leave the box blank. -- Interim Systems and Management Accounting Gordon Burgess-Parker Director www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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Salut/Hi Gordon,
Rick said To access the default administrator account: In WinXP Pro, hit ctrl+alt+delete twice at the logon screen and type it in. I asked 'it'? What? The Administrator password? "Administrator"? I don't need to do this, but I'd like to be able to understand your answer. le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:08:12 +0000, tu disais/you said:- Type "administrator" (without the quotes), in the Username, and whatever password you have in the password box. If the version of XP came pre-installed, than there probably is no password - just leave the box blank. Thanks very much. I know that it's a pain sometimes when people ask elementary questions but nearly all questions are elementary when you know the answer!!! It's all too easy to forget sometimes that what is obvious to the person writing the reply isn't anything like as clear to someone reading it! -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,
le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:47:05 -0700, tu disais/you said:- It refers to the icons that appear for each of the users. Unless you have substituted personal pictures of the users of your computer, the idealized representations from the XP library appear. Some people refer to these with nicknames like "Fisher Price People" because of their resemblance to the roundheaded figures. It is neither 'expertspeak' or rudeness. Just shorthand. Thanks again. I only know Fisher Price as a manufacturer of plastics children's toys. In 25 years dealing with computers, I'd never heard the expression. I've obviously mixed with the wrong people. -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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"Ian Hoare" wrote in message
... Salut/Hi Vanguard, le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:55:27 -0600, tu disais/you said:- Depends on WHICH version of Windows XP that you use. For Windows XP Home, you must reboot into Safe Mode and then can login under the Administrator account. For Windows XP Professional, it depends if you are using the Fisher-Price "Welcome Screen" Fisher Price? Is that some kind of expertspeak way of being rude? Would you have preferred me to refer to the new more graphical Welcome Screen as the glitzy one? Most users can't visualize what you mean when you simply say the old and new login interfaces. Actually I picked up on the Fisher-Price reference from other posters and figured it was a good way to differentiate it. I prefer the classic login prompt and the classic Start menu except I do like the MRU list in new more graphical, larger sized, and more functioned (whew) Start menu. -- __________________________________________________ __________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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The children are better.
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Ian Hoare" wrote in message ... Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" , le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:47:05 -0700, tu disais/you said:- It refers to the icons that appear for each of the users. Unless you have substituted personal pictures of the users of your computer, the idealized representations from the XP library appear. Some people refer to these with nicknames like "Fisher Price People" because of their resemblance to the roundheaded figures. It is neither 'expertspeak' or rudeness. Just shorthand. Thanks again. I only know Fisher Price as a manufacturer of plastics children's toys. In 25 years dealing with computers, I'd never heard the expression. I've obviously mixed with the wrong people. -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Salut/Hi Vanguard,
Thanks for replying. le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:52 -0600, tu disais/you said:- For Windows XP Professional, it depends if you are using the Fisher-Price "Welcome Screen" Fisher Price? Is that some kind of expertspeak way of being rude? Would you have preferred me to refer to the new more graphical Welcome Screen as the glitzy one? Grin - I don't know!! You see, I didn't know there was more than one kind, and I was curious which one _I_ was using! But your ref to F-P passed completely over my head and I guessed it might be a somewhat disapproving reference to something. Hence my - slightly acid - question. Most users can't visualize what you mean when you simply say the old and new login interfaces. I didn't even know there WERE two interfaces. (Grin again). -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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