XP User Accounts

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Geeky Dave

Hi all,

I just re-installed XP SP2 after formatting my HDD. Trouble is that each
time I boot up it defaults to user "Administrator", not "Dave", (me). I have
to then log out of the "Administrator " account & logon as myself. I have
full administrator privilages, if that helps.

I've installed XP many times before, but can't remember how I got around
this. (Or if it ever happened).

Can anyone give me an idea what I need to do to be able to turn on my PC &
automatically go directly to my account?

Thanks,

Dave.
 
Geeky said:
Hi all,

I just re-installed XP SP2 after formatting my HDD. Trouble is that each
time I boot up it defaults to user "Administrator", not "Dave", (me). I have
to then log out of the "Administrator " account & logon as myself. I have
full administrator privilages, if that helps.

I've installed XP many times before, but can't remember how I got around
this. (Or if it ever happened).

Can anyone give me an idea what I need to do to be able to turn on my PC &
automatically go directly to my account?

Thanks,

Dave.
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Put a password on the administrator account.

Flamer.
 
Hello Dave,

You can automatically logon to your own account by performing the following steps:

1) Click on start and click on run. Type 'control userpasswords2' (without the quotes) and press
enter.
2) Uncheck "User must enter a password..." and hit apply.
3) When prompted, input your username and password and click on OK.

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