XP administrator account (help me quick!!)

blastman · 21 May 2007 at 20:00

hey all,

I have a machine with only one account (administrator) which loads stright to the desktop as admin doesn't have a password (nice)

I have since made another account on the machine (bootleger) which i now don't need, and i wish for the machine to load stright to the administrator desktop again.

My question is this, since the logon page only has bootleger account as an option to logon to how do i logon to the admin account to delete bootleger?????

please help as i'm here till about 8.30ish and i need to get it sorted. :confused:

cheers in advance!!!

blastman

marc2003 · 21 May 2007 at 20:13

whilst at the logon screen, hold down ctrl-alt and tap del twice. this will bring up the classic windows logon where you can type in the username.

blastman · 21 May 2007 at 20:15

ok,

to answer my own question,

On the logon (welcome) screen preee ctrl-alt-delete twice allows you to put in the administrator name and password.

I now have the problem that it won't let me delete the old account bootleger (which is also admin) :rolleyes:

I have tried logging in as bootleger and changing the account type but no go.

any ideas???? :confused:

blastman · 21 May 2007 at 20:16

sorry marc2003 answered at the same time. he he he

marc2003 · 21 May 2007 at 20:22

i don't know why it won't delete? have you tried it in safe mode?

blastman · 21 May 2007 at 21:08

no i'm gonna try now.

thing is there is no option to delete in the user control manual.

I hope this works as i'm going home in a bit and i'll have to try and do i remotly.

I'll let you know how it goes.

cheers

blastman · 21 May 2007 at 22:00

well,

I'm at home now and no i was unable to delete the account in safe mode.

I have a remote connection to said machine so if anyones got any ideas on how i can delete this administrator account please post!!!

I have tried to change the account type but with no joy.

:confused:

blastman · 21 May 2007 at 22:29

right go it sorted,

i went start, run and typed "user passwords2" clicked ok and there we go!!!

I was able to delete the other admin account from there.

cheers for the help!!!

Happy as free mushrooms found in a box!!!