user accounts

[Howard Graham]

In configuring my user accounts I have been left with only two accounts,
a named account and a guest account. Neither the named account or the
guest account is designated "administrator" what have I done and how can
I fix it? When I select each account to modify it, there are no options
to change the account type from limited to administrator.
Howard Graham

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Howard,

This is where the hidden account called 'Administrator' comes in. Boot,
hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black to get the Menu and take Safe
Mode. That should then at 'Welcome' include an icon for
'Administrator'; if not hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice to get a logon dialog,
enter the explicit name Administrator and assume that password is null,
Enter immediately. From that, Start - Run type

control userpasswords2

and you can select any user account, or create new accounts, and Reset
Passwords.