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re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 1:53 pm
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Posted by Harry Clark (374 messages posted)


Start Run type in the box    Control userpasswords2   with a space after the l before 
the u 

Single left click to highlight the account name you wish to use 

Then untick the box top left 
"Users must enter a password to use this computer" 
enter and confirm your password or leave both blank to auto log on without prompts 

cheers HC 







On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 12:20 pm, Mick Allen wrote:
>I've reinstalled XP several times before, but this time I may have made an error.
> I now have an administrator account that XP boots to and a personal account (also
>with admin privileges). Is there either anyway of booting straight into my account
>or getting rid of the admin account (I'm guessing not!). Either that, or a way to
>transfer everything from my account to the admin one then deleting my account? It's
>easy enough just logging off the admin account, but I've gotten used to just turning
>a pc on and having it ready to go a few minutes later. Disabling the admin account
>is not an option as the pc still needs a couple of key presses until it's ready



Written in response to:
Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Mick Allen: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 12:20 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Mick Allen: Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 2:00 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Mick Allen: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 12:20 pm)
*re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Dam: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 1:53 pm)
-re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Harry Clark: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 1:53 pm)
-re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Mick Allen: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 2:00 am)
-re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:24 pm)
*re: Reinstall of XP and admin accounts (Mick Allen: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 1:14 am)
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