Puzzle about Administrator in XP Home

[Bill Mathews]

According to the MS Press book, "Windows XP Inside/Out", you cannot log on
as Administrator in XP Home (except when you run the last-ditch recovery
utility from the OS CD). Also according to that book, when you install XP,
it sets up just two accounts - Administrator and Guest.

Since Guest doesn't have rights to set up user accounts, and since you
cannot log on as Administrator, how do you set up user accounts in XP Home
(or do anything much of anything else at the system level)? Sounds like the
perfect 'Catch 22'.

I understand how XP Pro works - as in 2000, you log on as Administrator when
you are setting up the computer and add user accounts - but you can't do
that in XP Home. Or is the book just wrong?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[JeffO]

Unless there are different versions of XP Home, the book
is wrong!
I've logged onto XP Home (at the Welcome screen) by
pushing Ctrl+Alt+Del twice. That forces the logon screen
to come up.
Password is blank by default.