Lost Administrator account.

[David]

When I boot my PC use to open Administrator account, I do
not have any password. When my pc locked, it showed to
icons account to unlock, Administrator & David.
Administrator account has my profile, favorits, desktop,
etc. Something happened and now after boot I see the
screen like after pc is locked with only one icon for
David account, so I cannot log into Administrator
account. In control panel's users account I also do not
see Administrator account even though it exists on my C
drive. How can I acces it and get back my profile.
Thanks,
David.

 

[Walt]

I am kind of new to XP myself, but I just went through
this too. The administrator account is there, just
hidden. You need to get something like Tweak, and
under "logon", check the "show administrator account"
box.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

If you want to hide or unhide the names of users that are displayed on the
initial logon screen:

1.. Start Regedit
2.. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \
CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList
3.. Add a DWORD with the name of the user account you want to hide
4.. Make sure it has a value of 0
5.. If there is an existing account, you can unhide it by giving it a
value of 1

Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com

 

[Gordon]

When I boot my PC use to open Administrator account, I do
not have any password. When my pc locked, it showed to
icons account to unlock, Administrator & David.
Administrator account has my profile, favorits, desktop,
etc. Something happened and now after boot I see the
screen like after pc is locked with only one icon for
David account, so I cannot log into Administrator
account. In control panel's users account I also do not
see Administrator account even though it exists on my C
drive. How can I acces it and get back my profile.
Thanks,
David.

The built-in administrator Account is hidden automatically when you create
another account. Yu can access it by booting into Safe mode in Home Edition,
or in Pro, at the welcome screen, press Ctl-Alt-Del twice.

BTW, it is NOT a good idea to use this account for day-to-day use: create a
User account with Admin rights and use that. the reason for this is that the
Administrator Account is your emergency access to your machine when things
go belly up.