XP Pro started booting to Administrator after updates.

[Diogenes]

Set up originally as requested to my own username as the administrator. I
am the only user. All was fine. Updated various security issues at one
time. System started to display a user screen, suggesting I needed a
password. I don't recall if I then had to choose between my own username an
another named "Administrator". I ran "control userpasswords2" from run
command and de-selected "Require a Password". All went well until yet
another set of updates. Now I get no selection screen, but the system
boots every time into "Administrator", rather than my username, which is
also designated as having administrator privileges. I cannot access my
Outlook Express saved mail, contacts, preferences, etc., until I switch
users from the Start menu. I need to be able to either force boot-up into
my username as default, or force all of "Administrator"'s preferences and
databases to somehow shortcut to those posted under my own username. If I
could, I might rename everything with my username as 'Administrator" and
change the original Administrator to Adminold, but I don't know how deep
into the registry I would need to go. That seems too risky. I have
found no simple box to check or field to designate the default user.
Several smart people, please help. Give me a few good ideas or one real
solution. Thanks!

 

[Jerry]

The book "Windows XP Annoyances" on page 378 has a possible fix to your
problem. (ISBN 0-596-00416-8) (There is other info in it that is useful.) (I
am not going to sit here and type a page of info - check your library or
bookstore.)

 

[Alex Nichol]

Set up originally as requested to my own username as the administrator. I
am the only user. All was fine. Updated various security issues at one
time. System started to display a user screen, suggesting I needed a
password. I don't recall if I then had to choose between my own username an
another named "Administrator". I ran "control userpasswords2" from run
command and de-selected "Require a Password". All went well until yet
another set of updates. Now I get no selection screen, but the system
boots every time into "Administrator", rather than my username, which is
also designated as having administrator privileges.

Go back to that control, and re-check the 'All users must give a
username'. Apply. Highlight your own user name and 'Reset password' to
set one you want. Then uncheck it once more and Apply again. This time
tell it the username (you) it is to use, and the password now associated
with it

'Administrator' is a reserve account that you should keep for
emergencies - if you boot with the menu to Safe Mode it will appear on
the screen