Administrator User at Welcome screen is gone

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I have two users set up on my XP Pro machine, one is Administrator and the other is a normal user with admin privilages. Both of these users have been on this machine for months now. I rebooted my machine because one of my programs was not acting properly and when it got to the login/welcome screen the Administrator user is gone. I log in using the other user, browse to where the Administrator user files are and they are all fine. When I go to "Users" in the control panel all I see is the one user I loged in with and the "Guest" user wich is disabled. If I try to add a user named "Administrator" it tells me there is already a user named "Administrator"
What do I need to do to get my "Administrator" user back? (I have already tried restoring to several earlier dates with no help)
 
Hi,

Install TweakUI, it will allow you to display the administrator on the
Welcome screen. Also, as an FYI, by design, the admin account is not shown
on the welcome screen once normal users are created.

TweakUI:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



Dave said:
I have two users set up on my XP Pro machine, one is Administrator and the
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other is a normal user with admin privilages. Both of these users have been
on this machine for months now. I rebooted my machine because one of my
programs was not acting properly and when it got to the login/welcome screen
the Administrator user is gone. I log in using the other user, browse to
where the Administrator user files are and they are all fine. When I go to
"Users" in the control panel all I see is the one user I loged in with and
the "Guest" user wich is disabled. If I try to add a user named
"Administrator" it tells me there is already a user named "Administrator"
What do I need to do to get my "Administrator" user back? (I have already
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tried restoring to several earlier dates with no help)
 
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