Administrator Account Deleted when adding new account with administrator respons

[Leon]

I added a new account to my windows XP machine with
Administrator responsibilities. The machine then denied
access to my original administrator account. Other than
winding back is there anything i can do to get this
account back?

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Leon" said in news:[email protected]:

I added a new account to my windows XP machine with
Administrator responsibilities. The machine then denied
access to my original administrator account. Other than
winding back is there anything i can do to get this
account back?

"denied access to my original administrator account"

Do you mean that you enter "Administrator" and its password in the login
window and it refuses to let you login (as opposed to telling you that the
username or password was incorrect)?

Or do you mean that the Administrator account is now shown on the Welcome
screen? When you define any other account that is in the Administrators
group, the default "Administrator" account will no longer be displayed since
it is now considered the backup admin account. On the Welcome screen, you
have to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to get the classic login window. Or you can
configure XP to toss the Welcome screen to instead show the classic login
window. I'm also told (by a Microsoft KB article) that the Welcome screen
is not used if you log onto a domain instead of a workgroup.

The Administrator account will not show up in the User Accounts applet in
Control Panel, again because it is considered the backup admin account. Too
many newbie users of NT-based versions of Windows don't userstand user
accounts and were always logging on under the Administrator account.
Instead you are supposed to define your own personal admin account that you
log into and Administrator is when you need to use it when your profile gets
corrupted or you forget your account's password. For an alternate accounts
applet, run "control userpasswords2" which is much like the old user
accounts applet that is in Windows 2000. Or use the Computer Management MMC
to see and configure your user accounts, including Administrator (or
whatever you might have renamed it to).

 

[Kelly]

Hi Leon,

By default it should now be hidden.

Press Control/Alt/Delete Twice for Pro and Boot into safe mode and login for
Home.

TweakUI/Logon/Show Administrator on the Welcome Screen
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Or...

Enable/Disable Administrator on Welcome Screen (Line 5)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[anonymous]

You can only get into it from safe mode.

 

[NobodyMan]

You can only get into it from safe mode.

Ye who speak of things untrue.

You don't have to be in Safe Mode to work with the built-in
Administrator account. I can't speak for Home, where that may be
true, but in pro you can access the Administrator profile in Computer
Management/Groups and Users section.

I recommend not speaking matter-of-factly when you don't have all the
facts.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"NobodyMan" said in news:[email protected]:

Ye who speak of things untrue.

You don't have to be in Safe Mode to work with the built-in
Administrator account. I can't speak for Home, where that may be
true, but in pro you can access the Administrator profile in Computer
Management/Groups and Users section.

I recommend not speaking matter-of-factly when you don't have all the
facts.

Or run "control userpasswords2".