Logon as admin

[Daniel]

Hi

I have XP Pro, I am the only user and there is no logon screen, it boots
straight into Windows.

When I try to make changes to the startup programs in MSCONFIG I get an
error box saying that I need to logon as the administrator.

How do I do that?

thanks

Daniel

 

[John John (MVP)]

Hold the Shift key when the computer boots and you will bypass the
Autologon and be presented with a logon screen, if you don't see the
logon screen press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice and it will show. You can also do
this without a reboot, you only need to log off or Fast User Switch from
your Windows session to log on as a different user. You can also use
the "RunAs" feature to run certain commands with elevated administrator
privileges.

That being said I think that you are probably (or might already be)
logged on as an administrator, run one of the following commands at the
Command Prompt and you will see if you are already a member of the
Administrators group:

net localgroup administrators

or

net user "Your User Name"

To obtain "Your User Name" issue the following command:

set username

If you are already a member of the Administrators group you have other
problems.

John

 

[Daniel]

Thanks, all fixed

regards

Daniel

Hold the Shift key when the computer boots and you will bypass the
Autologon and be presented with a logon screen, if you don't see the logon
screen press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice and it will show. You can also do this
without a reboot, you only need to log off or Fast User Switch from your
Windows session to log on as a different user. You can also use the
"RunAs" feature to run certain commands with elevated administrator
privileges.

That being said I think that you are probably (or might already be) logged
on as an administrator, run one of the following commands at the Command
Prompt and you will see if you are already a member of the Administrators
group:

net localgroup administrators

or

net user "Your User Name"

To obtain "Your User Name" issue the following command:

set username

If you are already a member of the Administrators group you have other
problems.

John

 

[John John (MVP)]

You're welcome.

John

Thanks, all fixed

regards

Daniel