admin login mystery
Friday, November 24, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by robint
(7 messages posted)
Hi,
I have XP sr2 on my home computer. I had horrendous problems upgrading from sr1 to
sr2 - a horror story but not the subject of this question. In the process of finally
getting a succesful sr2 installation I set myself up to login as administrator and,
as far as i can remenber i used a blank password (ie no entry from keyboard) to set
up the password. Now I can boot up my computer and it never asks me for a password.
So far so good, BUT now I am WIFI enabled which has opened up a whole pandoras box
of security issues. I am now advised I should have a proper secure adminstrators
password to protect unauthorised external access to my files. When I try to change
my admin password, it tells me my account is password protected and asks me for a
password. When I input nothing and continue to add a new password etc, it responds
by telling me that my password is wrong etc. So its a stalemate. I could continue
to live with it but whatif something goes wrong and my admin requires a password
- shock horror I am locked out of all MY DOCUMENTS folder
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