Windows XP Home SP2 - Administrator Account disappeared

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This past Monday I finally allowed my desktop to download IE7 and then
install it when the computer was shutting down for the night. When I turned
it back on Wednesday it took awhile while it told me that it was finishing up
the installtion of IE7. It then came up and I started using it.
At a point a few minutes later a McAfee window popped up about a new upgrade
and I allowed it to go get the download. When the download was complete it
asked about installing it and I put that off until I was finished with what I
was doing and getting ready to shutdown for the night. I clicked the install
button and it came back and told me that only an Administration account could
load software on the machine. I checked the users accounts and there now was
NO Administrator account and only a single Guest account which has the name
of the old Administrator account.

How do I go about re-establishing an Administrator account?
 
XP Home requires a boot into Safe Mode to log-in as Administrator. Did you
try that and the McAfee install from Safe Mode?
 
I have not tried that as yet. Will try when I get home tonight. Thanks!
 
Jerry, this did not work ... it still logged me in using the guest account.
 
Doesn't work like that.

Booting into safe mode is supposed to give the log-in screen that has an
Administrator box. Are you not seeing that?
 

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