How to login as Administrator with the Welcome Screen?

[Aloke Prasad]

Administrator is not a choice for logging in on the Welcome screen. Is
there any way to login to the Administrator account if one is using the
Welcome screen?

All this is on XPPro.

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Administrator is not a choice for logging in on the Welcome screen.
Is there any way to login to the Administrator account if one is
using the Welcome screen?

All this is on XPPro.

Press Ctl-Alt-Del twice and you'll get the W2K-style logon box. Type in the
details and off you go!

HTH

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Administrator is not a choice for logging in on the Welcome screen. Is
there any way to login to the Administrator account if one is using the
Welcome screen?

All this is on XPPro.

Hit ctrl-alt-delete twice

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Additionally, To enable the Administrator account on the new Windows XP
logon screen, visit my web site, www.dougknox.com and go to the Windows XP
section. Follow the link for Enable Administrator Account ......

This small VB Script will make the registry change necessary for the
Administrator account to be available on the Welcome Screen. If you prefer
to do it manually, click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList\

Note: There is a space between Windows and NT in the above Key.

Add the Administrator account if necessary and/or change the Administrator
value to 1

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Thanks to everyone who replied. Great site, Doug!

How does one learn of this and the cntrl-alt-del method (other than asking
here). Are these documented?

I'd like to ask as a last resort (trying to be self-sufficient and all
that...) and increase traffic in this very busy newsgroup!

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Some of these types of tweaks are documented, others are found by using
tools that monitor the Registry, checking to see what the System is looking
for at various points. I don't know if either of these two are
"documented" officially by MS, but they're well documented on the web

 

[Alex Nichol]

Administrator is not a choice for logging in on the Welcome screen. Is
there any way to login to the Administrator account if one is using the
Welcome screen?

All this is on XPPro.

At Welcome, hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice, that brings up the logon dialog,
where you can enter
Administrator
explicitly, with its password

Or it will be on Welcome if you boot to Safe mode