re: admin login mystery
Friday, November 24, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by robint
(7 messages posted)
Apologies all, I read in the Networking forum that the feature "control userpassword2"
brings up a menu that has a uncheck box to enabled access without password login.
I presume that is what I did originally. Im scared to change it to password access
in case i lock myself out and cant get back in
I made a second admin account called admin2 so i wll try "enabling all fill access
to others" and then recreating a new password under the second admin.
This is a sweat session for me
On Friday, November 24, 2006 at 4:33 pm, robint wrote:
>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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- admin login mystery (robint: Friday, November 24, 2006 at 4:33 pm)
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