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re: Adding new user without losing access to original administrator account Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:12 pm Posted by jbs (1010 messages posted) There are two ways to do this. Read here - http://home.earthlink.net/~lreynol929/ruXP/Startup/howto.htm The better thing to do though would be to make two new accounts to use and leave the original administrator hidden. It really should not be used for normal use. You can give either of the other accounts administrator rights. 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Adding new user without losing access to original administrator account Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:17 pm 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Adding new user without losing access to original administrator account Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8:56 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7132 messages posted) 1. Log on as the built-in Administrator account, which is what they are using (BIG mistake, by the way). 2. Make a new user for yourself, make it a Computer Administrator account. 3. Make a second new user, also a Computer Administrator. This will eventually be your Aunt's account for daily use. 4. Log off as the built-in Administrator account. Log on to your new account. Log off and log on to your Aunt's new account. (This initial logon process builds the folder structure in the c:\documents and settings folder for each new account.) Log off. 5. Log on once again to your account. Start>r/c on My Computer>choose properties>Advanced tab>User Profiles section>Settings button. 6. Highlight the built-in Administrator account>Copy To>Change button>Advanced tab>Find now button, select the new account you made for your Aunt>OK>OK. 7. Log off. Log on to your Aunt's new account to verify the copy process has completed and that documents and settings have been copied. 8. If your Aunt was using Outlook Express for her email client, and the new account does not have her email account and email messages, use the following MS KB article to transfer the mail and settings: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055/ 9. Finally, log on to the built-in Administrator account. (From the Welcome Screen, press and hold down both CTRL and ALT, hit DEL twice rapidly, then release all three to bring up the classic logon; type in Administrator and the correct password [if there is no password on the account simply leave blank].) 10. Conrol Panel>User Accounts, change the type of both yours and your Aunt's accounts from Computer Administrator to Limited User. (For best security, do your daily computing tasks while logged on as a Limited User. Log on as a Computer Administrator only when the task to be done requires the higher authority of a CA account. When that task is done, log off the CA account.) 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