Admin restriction??

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Bryan

Recently replaced a motherboard for a friend. The motherboard I replaced it
with was NOT an identical model, but was close. Did a repair on the Windows
XP Home installation and everything was working as it should have been.
Friend just brought the PC back for me to look at regarding a problem with
the RAS service not starting. This was cured by re-applying SP2. During this
fix however, when I attempted to log on as ADMINISTRATOR it resulted in a
dialog window popping up telling me I could not log on due to a restrictin
in place. Seeing as how I did the rebuild of the PC and repair of the OS, I
was kind of curious as to how and what this dialog box meant. My friend
assured me, and I do believe him, that he made no changes other than
creating a user account. The user account he has is a member of the
ADMINISTRATOR group, but is NOT the ADMINISTRATOR acount.

While he has his PC back and is happy with it's operation the error I
experienced trying to log on as ADMINISTRATOR has left me scratching the
grey matter.

Any ideas?

TIA
Bryan
 
It sounds like you know what you're doing, so I'll skip the basics...

If memory serves (and it rarely does), there is no ADMINISTRATOR account in
Windows XP Home Edition. Instead, you can either create an account as a
computer administrator account or as a limited account, but again, there is
no true administrator account in the sense that you'll encounter one in
Windows XP Pro.

So when you talk about trying to log on as administrator, I must assume that
you created an account named administrator at one point in time, correct?
 
Bryan said:
Recently replaced a motherboard for a friend. The motherboard I replaced it
with was NOT an identical model, but was close. Did a repair on the Windows
XP Home installation and everything was working as it should have been.
Friend just brought the PC back for me to look at regarding a problem with
the RAS service not starting. This was cured by re-applying SP2. During this
fix however, when I attempted to log on as ADMINISTRATOR it resulted in a
dialog window popping up telling me I could not log on due to a restrictin
in place. Seeing as how I did the rebuild of the PC and repair of the OS, I
was kind of curious as to how and what this dialog box meant. My friend
assured me, and I do believe him, that he made no changes other than
creating a user account. The user account he has is a member of the
ADMINISTRATOR group, but is NOT the ADMINISTRATOR acount.

While he has his PC back and is happy with it's operation the error I
experienced trying to log on as ADMINISTRATOR has left me scratching the
grey matter.

Any ideas?

TIA
Bryan
Click to expand...

To login to the Administrator account in XP Home you must start up in
Safe Mode.

Steve N.
 
Bob said:
It sounds like you know what you're doing, so I'll skip the basics...

If memory serves (and it rarely does), there is no ADMINISTRATOR account in
Windows XP Home Edition.
Click to expand...

See my reply to the OP.

Steve N.
 
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