re: Adding new user without losing access to original administrator account
Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CITechnologies
(234 messages posted)
Well...though it would be an annoyance, they could also press the "control + alt
+ del" sequence to pull up the user name and password prompt native to older versions
of Windows, which would also be a way to get into Administrator account on other
XP systems without logging into safe mode.
On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 6:29 pm, Megan wrote:
>Hey. I'm trying to make a new user profile on XP Pro edition, and I'm not so familiar
>with XP; am used to 95 and 98. I'm on my aunt's computer, and the only user they
>have is the original administrator account named 'Administrator'. If you open up
>the User Accounts window in the control panel and click on the Administrator icon,
>it even says, "The administrator account is only visible on the Welcome screen when
>no other user accounts exist (except the guest account), or when you start your
computer
>in Safe Mode." So when I create a new user account for myself, and then restart
the
>computer, -their- user account is no longer accessible from the welcome/log on page.
>I had to use System Restore that comes with Windows to get out of the situation.
>My question is, how do I make a new one for myself and keep their original one accessible
>at the same time?
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