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Missing Administrator Icon In Welcome Screen Salim Bharmal 10-07-2007
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?U2FsaW0gQmhhcm1hbA== on October 7, 2007, 4:53 am
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I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without my
Amin
previledges. Can some one please help?

Posted by matt hopkins on October 7, 2007, 7:32 am
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with windows theres a built in administrator account witch is usually hidden
or locked away youll probably have to unlock that

this page will tell you how to unlock it
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/05/07/unhide-the-administrator-account-in-windows-xp/


>I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
> Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without
> my
> Amin
> previledges. Can some one please help?


Posted by Kerry Brown on October 7, 2007, 9:00 am
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>I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
> Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without
> my
> Amin
> previledges. Can some one please help?


What version of Windows?

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca



Posted by Malke on October 7, 2007, 10:14 am
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Salim Bharmal wrote:
> I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
> Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without my
> Amin
> previledges. Can some one please help?

It sounds like you 1) have XP Pro; 2) were using the built-in
Administrator account for your daily work; 3) have now created a second
user account with administrative privileges. If this is correct, the
built-in Administrator account is hidden by design when you create a
second user account with administrative privileges.

If my assumption is correct, you can still log into the built-in
Administrator account by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del at the Welcome Screen. This
will get you the classic logon box. Enter "Administrator" for the user
name (without the quotes of course) and your password.

If this is *not* your situation, then please post back with a better
description of your system. You may wish to refer to this link to see
what details to include in a newsgroup post in order to get focused help.

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Posted by wng_z3r0 on October 7, 2007, 11:10 am
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If Malke's suggestion doesn't help, try this:
Copy the following line by highlighting it and then pressing ctrl-c
net users >"%userprofile%\desktop\output.txt" & notepad
"%userprofile%\desktop\output.txt"

Go to start->run (or if you are using windows vista windows key + r), and
then press ctrl-v to paste the above line into the run box.

Press ok. A notepad window should open with the accounts on your computer.
Please post back the results in the notepad window. You may wish to change
any personally identifying usernames.

wng
> Salim Bharmal wrote:
>> I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration
>> User Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes
>> without my Amin
>> previledges. Can some one please help?
>
> It sounds like you 1) have XP Pro; 2) were using the built-in
> Administrator account for your daily work; 3) have now created a second
> user account with administrative privileges. If this is correct, the
> built-in Administrator account is hidden by design when you create a
> second user account with administrative privileges.
>
> If my assumption is correct, you can still log into the built-in
> Administrator account by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del at the Welcome Screen. This
> will get you the classic logon box. Enter "Administrator" for the user
> name (without the quotes of course) and your password.
>
> If this is *not* your situation, then please post back with a better
> description of your system. You may wish to refer to this link to see what
> details to include in a newsgroup post in order to get focused help.
>
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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