Administrarot

[Guest]

Hi all,

Please help me. I have just started to use my new computer with XP. In the
beginning we had 2 user accounts, me & my wife, which were both
administrator's. We decided to go back to just having one. Somehow my user
account at the moment isn't an administrator, it's just a user, so I can't
download programs, change settings etc. I have found out that if you hold
shift and right click a program you can run the program as the administrator.
But when I do this, it says that this user account has been disabled. I
really need to be an administrator and short of re formatting the whole
drive, I have no idea of what to do, does anyone know what I should do???

 

[D.Currie]

Hi all,

Please help me. I have just started to use my new computer with XP. In
the
beginning we had 2 user accounts, me & my wife, which were both
administrator's. We decided to go back to just having one. Somehow my
user
account at the moment isn't an administrator, it's just a user, so I can't
download programs, change settings etc. I have found out that if you hold
shift and right click a program you can run the program as the
administrator.
But when I do this, it says that this user account has been disabled. I
really need to be an administrator and short of re formatting the whole
drive, I have no idea of what to do, does anyone know what I should do???

Go to the control panel, Users, and change the user to an administrator.

 

[Guest]

I have tried that, but I am the only user. I have no idea how I have done
this, I am just going to have to start all over again.