How do I get to be the System Administrator?

[Guest]

I am the only peron using this computer, yet, when I try to do certain things
my access is denied.
Q: How do I get full access to my system?

 

[Rich Barry]

Janice, you have to change to the Admin Group if you are not there
already. To do this check here
Go to Help and Support>System Administration>Passwords and User
Accounts>Under Pick a Task choose Change the Group a User belongs to.
Click on the + next to Computer on Domain or Computer not on Domain.
Check here for how to Log on as a Admin.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/admins.htm

 

[Jerry]

You don't log-on as 'you' you log-on as the Administrator.

If you are the only user and you installed XP then you should also be in the
system as 'you' an Administrator - and you should have full access to do
everything and there should be no restrictions. So, did you install XP? And
did you create any restrictions?

 

[bumtracks]

I know not how and have not looked into the why,
xp home sp2 slipstream/format/installed on a laptop ended up with 'default'
as the only user/admin and denied me access to several things, yet not all.
Added a password for default then could access everything. But applied
logic and made a username/password then the welcome screen quit showing the
Administrator & Default user login choices and now only shows the one user
myName. Shrug.

Anyhow if I were Janice I would login safe mode as Administrator and make
Janice a user/admin account