Admin Login from Welcome Screen

[Dick]

Hello,
I've recently applied the last 12 or so security updates to my Windows
XP machine which is used by multiple users. One of the patches has
taken the "administrator" account off of the Welcome screen. I've
been working around this by changing the logon style to not use the
welcome screen when I need to login as administrator, then changing it
back once I was done doing what I had to do as admin. There has to be
a better way to do this, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it
back (and I don't want to back out the security updates for the
obvious reasons). Any help appreicated.
Thanks,
Dick

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281992&Product=winxp

Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Hello,
| I've recently applied the last 12 or so security updates to my Windows
| XP machine which is used by multiple users. One of the patches has
| taken the "administrator" account off of the Welcome screen. I've
| been working around this by changing the logon style to not use the
| welcome screen when I need to login as administrator, then changing it
| back once I was done doing what I had to do as admin. There has to be
| a better way to do this, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it
| back (and I don't want to back out the security updates for the
| obvious reasons). Any help appreicated.
| Thanks,
| Dick

 

[John A. Wolf]

You can use TweakUI to have the Administrator show up on the log in screen.
Just open TweakUI and click on the Logon on branch, make sure Show
"Administrator" on Welcom Screen is checked.

If you don't have TweakUI, you can get it and the other power toys here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp