Help with Windows XP Pro user accounts

[Trikat]

I don't know what I did to warranty Windows completely screwing me over, but I guess it is because I created some shortcut shutdown/reboot icons.
What I did was create the reboot icon by right clicking on the desktop and selecting new shortcut. I used shudown -r and that would bascially be a shortcut to reboot a computer.
Anyways I ran the shortcut and it sucessfully rebooted my computer; however, after it booted up Windows it created its own user "Administrator."
Bascially it is like creating a whole you user where you have to configure IE, setup the desktop, etc.
I can get back to my old user account by logging off and on, but what I want is Windows to set my user account as the default one everytime it restarts/boots up.
I can't find anything that would do that. (Google)

Also when I go to user groups from the user name I want, it cannot see the user Administrator. But using this run command I can see the user Administrator, but cannot delete it!
start menu -> run -> Control Userpasswords2

I however can see the Administrator user from C:\Doc settings\Administrator
Deleting it will not erase that user. Rebooting the computer will just create another Administrator.
Also from the Administrator user I can see the user Administrator, but Windows will not allow you to delete the user you are currently on.

I need help on fixing this annoying problem! Please!

 

[NogginBoink]

Windows XP *always* has an account named Administrator. It cannot be deleted.

Under XP Home, the Administrator account is typically hidden from view to force you to use other user accounts.

Do this: when the computer logs you in automatically as Administrator, log out, and press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice to get the old style logon dialog, and see if you can log on as your regular user account.

 

[Skitzer]

TweakUI

 

[Trikat]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Windows XP *always* has an account named Administrator. It cannot be deleted.

Under XP Home, the Administrator account is typically hidden from view to force you to use other user accounts.

Do this: when the computer logs you in automatically as Administrator, log out, and press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice to get the old style logon dialog, and see if you can log on as your regular user account.

I just used start -> log off -> sign up to the account I want. But what I want to do is to have my regular account as the default account when Windows boots up.
Right now the problem is Windows boots into Administrator upon boot up.

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I'll check out tweakUI and see if I can do anything with that. Thx Skitzer.

 

[spyordie007]

TweakUI will let you remove the automatic login causing it to start up under the admin account.

The default Administrator account cannot be deleted however it can be disabled or renamed.

 

[Trikat]

Yay, TweakUI worked. Took me <30seconds to find where to set the default user log in. 🙂

I'll browse through that program as it does seem pretty useful. I ran CCleaner a couple days ago and I believe the made Windows revert back to "classic type" mode.
Well all I know is my ALT+CTRL+DEL gives me a 6 button pop up window instead of the usual straight to task manager deal.
And my start -> shutdown gives me the classic menu instead of the bubbly icons. 🙂