Admin Account

[amerifax]

I added a new account to my administrator account. Now it doesn't show up on the login window. Why don't I see it? I also added my name to it. I also checked something along the lines of not allowing anyone else access to my files. Now all my passwords and serial numbers and registrations don't work. Is there a way to get my settings back? I am down until I figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob Snow

 

[mechBgon]

If you had been using the "true" Administrator account, then it will vanish from the Welcome screen as soon as you create another Admin-class account, because it isn't supposed to be showing in the first place. If you want to get it back, the AddAdministrator registry patch will do it. I don't have time to find it for you this morning, but someone can help you with this.

 

[amerifax]

Thanks so much for the quick response. When I do this, will all my settings still be there?

Bob

 

[stash]

You can also hit ctrl-alt-del twice IIRC and you'll get a classic logon screen where you can enter the username.

 

[amerifax]

What do you mean by IIRC? I couldn't seem to get that to work for me. But I will give it another try.

Is there an easy way to duplicate the true admin account to another account so that it could basically be a mirror of it and then from there I can take out what I want, rather that start from scratch and build an account up.

Heather (for Bob)

 

[stash]

If I Recall Correctly, which apparently I don't

Ah, apparently that trick only works on XP Pro, not Home. I'm guessing you have the latter...?

 

[amerifax]

I actually have XP Pro x64. Thanks again for your help.

Heather (for bob)