Administrator account

[Guest]

I've asked previously and been given a duff (or incomplete answer)

HOW do you access the root Administrator account on XP Home or XP
Professional WITHOUT accessing safe mode.

Someone said to hit ctrl-alt-delete twice at the logon screen, but if you do
this and then try to login as administrator, you get the message back "The
system cannot log you in due to account restrictions".

I would access it via safe mode, but there seems to be a bug with many
systems with (even a clean install) of XP with SP2 that prevents the system
from booting into safe mode - it just reboots halfway.

Any ideas?

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Can you log on using any other accounts?

 

[Guest]

Yes, but that's not the problem - I want to access the root administrator
account so that I can change ownership on some files, and you can ONLY do
that in XP Home if you are logged on as the root System Administrator account
- it won't work in any other account, limitted, administrator, or otherwise.

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[Sleepless in Seattle]

Control Panel/User accounts/Change the way users log on and off/Disable
Welcome screen etc. You will get the "classic" logon box. Enter username and
password.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I've asked previously and been given a duff (or incomplete answer)

HOW do you access the root Administrator account on XP Home or XP
Professional WITHOUT accessing safe mode.

By design, the only way to log into the Administrator account of WinXP
Home is to reboot into Safe Mode. For WinXP Pro, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL
twice at the Welcome Screen will produce the standard login dialog box.

Someone said to hit ctrl-alt-delete twice at the logon screen, but if you do
this and then try to login as administrator, you get the message back "The
system cannot log you in due to account restrictions".

Have you disabled the built-in Administrator account? If so, you'll
need to use another account with administrative privileges to enable it.




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[Alex Nichol]

I've asked previously and been given a duff (or incomplete answer)

HOW do you access the root Administrator account on XP Home or XP
Professional WITHOUT accessing safe mode.

Someone said to hit ctrl-alt-delete twice at the logon screen, but if you do
this and then try to login as administrator, you get the message back "The
system cannot log you in due to account restrictions".

That should work on Pro; if it doesn't, run gpedit.msc and look for the
restriction that may have been placed on the logon. The Safe mode route
is the only one available in Home

 

[Guest]

This does indeed work fine in XP Pro, and the system in question was XP Home.

The trouble i've found is that on a number of systems i've worked on that
have had, even CLEAN installations of XP Home SP2 on, they will refuse to go
into safe mode, instead rebooting almost instantly after the initial filelist.

If you disable the auto-reboot feature of the blue screen, you find that the
crash is IRQL_THAN_NOT_EQUAL, which suggests driver or hardware issues. These
can be PC system that have been running fine for 2 years, have had fresh
reinstalls and now bomb out. Any suggestions as to why? They never did it on
SP1 or 1a.

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