Logon as Administrator

[JimS]

I made the mistake of creating a new user in XP Pro and
now I'd like to logon as Administrator but I can't do it.
There is no Administrator option on the friendly logon
interface. I finally figured out how to cntl-alt-delete
twice to get to the Win2000 type screen but when I entered
Administrator and my password I get a logon error message.

Can anyone help?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

For XP Home, you can only log on to the built in Administrator account in Safe Mode.

 

[Rifleman]

I made the mistake of creating a new user in XP Pro and
now I'd like to logon as Administrator but I can't do it.
There is no Administrator option on the friendly logon
interface. I finally figured out how to cntl-alt-delete
twice to get to the Win2000 type screen but when I entered
Administrator and my password I get a logon error message.

Can anyone help?

then you must be entering the wrong password. Caps lock on?

 

[Rifleman]

For XP Home, you can only log on to the built in Administrator account in
Safe Mode.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

What you got when you went to the old logon screen is the XP Hidden admin
account. There can only be one account called "administrator" on an XP
machine. Many accounts can be administrator accounts but they can't have
administrator as the user name. If you were previously using the
administrator account, try this, type the word administrator for the user
ID, leave the password blank and press enter.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

True, I missed that.

 

[JimS]

Michael, You are right! Also I used Doug Knox's advice
found elsewhere and ran CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 and set
admin to auto logon. Now I have a password but auto logon
to admin w/o entering it which is what I wanted all
along. Much thanks to Michael and Doug.

By the way, the reason I got into all this is that I'm
trying to convert my home wifi network of XP, 2K, and 98SE
to sharing files and printers. I'm having lots of trouble
and I think it is mainly because of user names and
passwords on the different machines. It is all very
confusing!

-----Original Message-----
What you got when you went to the old logon screen is the XP Hidden admin
account. There can only be one account

called "administrator" on an XP

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

You're welcome, Jim, glad you got it straightened out.

Many have found printer sharing a bit daunting. If you can't get that
worked out, I assume from what you are saying you have all machines
connected to a wireless router. If that's the case, you might get around
all the networking mess by simply installing the printer on each setup using
the appropriate drivers for that setup. I've tried this with a wired router
and it worked for me.

The problem usually isn't the passwords, the problem is you have to install
the different drivers for each setup on the XP machine and I found it
wouldn't always do that so well. Since I had the drivers for my printer for
the various OSs I had on different desktops, as a last resort, I tried
simply installing the printer on each system, that worked. It was connected
to my XP system and note, it was a parallel port printer, I haven't tried
this with a USB printer and I just ran add printer on each system, it saw
the printer through the router and that was that. You will need to be sure
the systems can see each other in every other way before doing this. In
other words, they have full access back and forth with each other.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If, as you say, you've already learned how to log in using the
built-in Administrator account, with what, precisely, do you need
help? (Iow, _what_ is the error message?)

As you've learned, once any additional user accounts have been
created, the Administrator account will no longer be displayed on the
Welcome Screen. This is a default security feature. 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.


Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

On the WinXP PC, create local user account(s), with password(s),
that have the desired access privileges to the desired shares. Log on
to the other PCs using those account(s), and you will be able to
access the designated shares, provided your network is configured
properly. Also, make sure that WinXP's built-in firewall
is disabled on the internal LAN connection.

On the Win2K PC, create local user account(s), with password(s),
that have the desired access privileges to the desired shares. Log on
to the other PCs using those account(s), and you will be able to
access the designated shares, provided your network is configured
properly.

Usually, WinXP's Networking Wizard makes it simple and painless --
almost entirely automatic, in fact. There's a lot of useful,
easy-to-follow information in WinXP's Help & Support files, and here:

Home Networking
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp

Networking Information
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking.htm

PracticallyNetworked Home
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm

Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm

Configuring Windows 2000 Professional to Work in a Peer-to-Peer
Network
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q258717

Bruce Chambers

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