I logged off my administrator account and it made the
secondary account the administrator and I cannot get back
to my original account does anyone know how to do this?

"EB" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in news:135301c4a8f1$9a70e090$(E-Mail Removed):
> I logged off my administrator account and it made the
> secondary account the administrator and I cannot get back
> to my original account does anyone know how to do this?

Once you define another account that is in the Administrators group then
it becomes the default admin account. That is because the Administrator
account should NOT be used as your personal account. If its profile
gets screwed up and if it is the only admin account then you have no way
to login (well, there might be workarounds, like deleting the old
corrupted profile and forcing the create of a new default one).

After you define another admin account, the Administrator account
disappears from the Fisher-Price "Welcome" screen. I got rid of that
Welcome screen soon after installing Windows XP Pro and reverting back
to the classic login screen where I can specify the account name (so I
can enter "Administrator"). The Welcome screen only appears in Windows
XP Pro if you do NOT log into a domain or if you haven't gotten rid of
it when logging into a workgroup. Disabling the Welcome screen also
disables fast user switching.

You never mentioned WHICH version of Windows XP that you have, Home or
Pro. In Windows XP Pro, you can switch away from the Welcome Screen to
the classic login screen by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del twice. In Windows XP
Home, you have to reboot into Safe Mode (one of the prices for not
getting the Pro version).

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NT Authroity is the default administrator account. Your
account ( administrator) will be the second administrator
account listed. You can not delete the initial
administrator account set up by the operating system. You
can set up additional user acounts, and administrator
accounts ( usually good to have two administrator
accounts, should you not be able to log into one of
them).
>-----Original Message-----
>"EB" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>wrote in news:135301c4a8f1$9a70e090$(E-Mail Removed):
>> I logged off my administrator account and it made the
>> secondary account the administrator and I cannot get
back
>> to my original account does anyone know how to do this?
>
>Once you define another account that is in the
Administrators group then
>it becomes the default admin account. That is because
the Administrator
>account should NOT be used as your personal account. If
its profile
>gets screwed up and if it is the only admin account then
you have no way
>to login (well, there might be workarounds, like
deleting the old
>corrupted profile and forcing the create of a new
default one).
>
>After you define another admin account, the
Administrator account
>disappears from the Fisher-Price "Welcome" screen. I
got rid of that
>Welcome screen soon after installing Windows XP Pro and
reverting back
>to the classic login screen where I can specify the
account name (so I
>can enter "Administrator"). The Welcome screen only
appears in Windows
>XP Pro if you do NOT log into a domain or if you haven't
gotten rid of
>it when logging into a workgroup. Disabling the Welcome
screen also
>disables fast user switching.
>
>You never mentioned WHICH version of Windows XP that you
have, Home or
>Pro. In Windows XP Pro, you can switch away from the
Welcome Screen to
>the classic login screen by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del twice.
In Windows XP
>Home, you have to reboot into Safe Mode (one of the
prices for not
>getting the Pro version).
>
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