User Set up

[Guest]

I must preface this conversation with the fact that I am maybe an
intermediate computer user. That being said.

I tried to set up multiple User Accounts on my home PC (running Windows XP).
I was orginally set up as the Administrator and then created a User Account
for my wife and set up this account with administrator rights and gave it a
user name of Erin.

The problem I have now is that I only see the Erin user account and the
Guest user account and cannot access the orginal user account named
Administrator.

As a result, I cannot access any of my files, Itunes, etc.

Any help guideance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mike Lowery]

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/admins.htm

 

[Lem]

I must preface this conversation with the fact that I am maybe an
intermediate computer user. That being said.

I tried to set up multiple User Accounts on my home PC (running Windows XP).
I was orginally set up as the Administrator and then created a User Account
for my wife and set up this account with administrator rights and gave it a
user name of Erin.

The problem I have now is that I only see the Erin user account and the
Guest user account and cannot access the orginal user account named
Administrator.

As a result, I cannot access any of my files, Itunes, etc.

Any help guideance would be greatly appreciated.

The account named "Administrator" is intended to be a last-resort tool
for recovering from various problems. It is meant to be NOT used for
day-to-day operation. Therefore, as soon as you create another account
with administrative rights, the Administrator account no longer appears
on the Welcome screen. It is available in Safe Mode or (in XP Pro with
Fast User Switching turned off, by pressing ctrl-alt-del twice).

You should create an account for yourself with a name other than
"administrator." Move your data to the new profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151 If you have permission problems
accessing the data from the new profile, see "take ownership" of files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

I'm not sure what various applications will do, particularly iTunes.
You may want to check in Apple's iTunes for Windows forum for advice.

Ideally, from a security point of view, neither you nor other users
should routinely run using an account with administrative privileges.
However, almost every Win XP user does so -- that's a major reason that
Microsoft developed the User Account Control feature in Vista.