User account problem

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Andy Dean

I've recently done a format and clean install of XP. Updated to SP2 and
installed all the updates. I am the sole user of my PC and don't have
the system passworded.
My problem is this. If I go to Control Panel/User accounts I see my
Administrator account and an ASP.Net account. Everything normal up to
now. However if I then look at the Event Viewer/Security I see there are
four Failure Audits two related to my account and two related to the
ASP.Net account. An event ID 529 (Unknown user name or bad password)
and event ID 680 for both accounts. I don't ever remember this happening
on my previous install.
This doesn't seem to cause any problems it's just annoying to me that I
don't know why this is occuring.
Any ideas please?
 
Andy said:
I've recently done a format and clean install of XP. Updated to SP2
and installed all the updates. I am the sole user of my PC and don't
have the system passworded.
My problem is this. If I go to Control Panel/User accounts I see my
Administrator account and an ASP.Net account. Everything normal up to
now. However if I then look at the Event Viewer/Security I see there
are four Failure Audits two related to my account and two related to
the ASP.Net account. An event ID 529 (Unknown user name or bad
password) and event ID 680 for both accounts. I don't ever remember
this happening on my previous install.
This doesn't seem to cause any problems it's just annoying to me that
I don't know why this is occuring.
Any ideas please?
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Information about ASP.NET
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php

Malke
 
Andy said:
I've recently done a format and clean install of XP. Updated to SP2 and
installed all the updates. I am the sole user of my PC and don't have
the system passworded.
My problem is this. If I go to Control Panel/User accounts I see my
Administrator account and an ASP.Net account.
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It's very bad practice to use the built-in administrator account on a
day-to-day basis, if only for the reason that if you corrupt it, you have
NO way of getting into your machine other than by a repair install of XP,
and if you have only a Recovery CD then you are well stuffed. create a user
account with admin privileges and use that on a day-to-day basis, leaving
the built-in Administrator account for emergency use.

HTH
 
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