Where to see Administrator Account in XP Home

[Frankster]

I am familiar with configuring the Administrator account in XP Pro
(password, etc), but I cannot find how to do this in XP Home. Where can I
find the Administrator account to configure the password?

When I attempt to logon with what I *think* is the proper password, on
various machines (sometimes no password is set) I get a message that says
"cannot log you on due to account restrictions". What's that?

Thanks,

-Frank

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Frank,

The default administrator account in a WinXP Home system is only accessed in
Safe mode once other admin accounts have been created.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Drew Tognola]

Frankster,

You can run the Administrator account from 'Safe Mode' only using Windows XP
Home.

Drew

 

[Guest]

hi there,
what do i do after i go to safe mode ?......just bought this computer
with xp media center....i am a beginner in using xp and haven't bought a book

 

[Guest]

i just did a search here in general xp and found some help, but any other
help would be nice...thanks

 

[Frankster]

Thanks Rick and Drew. Now I can logon as Administrator... but is there
anyway I can logon as another user (with admin priv) and access the
Administrator account config?

Also,

How can I map an administrator share (i.e. net use z: \\hostname\c$) in XP
Home? Being unable to do this, due to what I thought was a password
miss-match, is why I started this thread to begin with. When I try to map
the admin share (c$ - yes, the c drive is shared) I get a network path not
found message? I can create a "normal" share and it works fine, unless I
try to map it using the "Administrator" account, in which case it fails too.

This is all because of a network with mostly "pro" machines (xp and W2K) but
a few "home" machines. the Home machines are acting differently when trying
to map administrator shared drives.

Sorry, I'm just not experienced with the Home version.

Thanks,

-Frank

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

WinXP Home doesn't do admin shares, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314984

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Frankster]

WinXP Home doesn't do admin shares, see:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314984

Well, that certainly explains it LOL!

Thank you.

-Frank

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

You're welcome, sorry it's not the news you wanted to hear.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org