Re: Anonther stupid question
Is it XP Pro or Home ?
For Windows XP Home Edition: While you can configure Windows XP Home Edition to show Administrator account in the Welcome Screen, you cannot login as Administrator in Normal mode but you can try via manual registry edit.
Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe, Navigate to the following key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList, Use the File, Export option to back up key. Right-click in the right pane and select New DWORD Value.Type-in Administrator as the value Double-click Administrator, and assign a value of 1. Close Regedit. You may use this procedure to hide/show users in the Welcome Screen for any user account.
If you have XP Home with SPack 2, in user prompt screen, just hit CTRL ALT DEL twice and you'll get the classic WIN2K style logon screen without compromising the fast user switching. Alt-ctrl-delete or disabling the welcome screen works well. Just a note that the default Administrator password is 'null' just don't enter anything. Factory installed OS may give hard time even on sp 2.
Many computers that come with XP pre-installed have an administrator account set up so that only the vendor can access it. they do this in case their customers ask for technical support (or perhaps make a little money on the side ). if you installed windows XP, the admin account probably has no password, so you just leave the password field blank and you have the access.
And if still this wont work then, you can disable windows from automatically booting in to an account, do the following: from the start menu, run regedit.exe and go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\" change the value of "AutoAdminLogon" from "1" (the number one) to "0" (the number zero). You can also temporally bypass the auto logon on startup by holding down the shift key once the GUI starts to load (but before the user is automatically logged on); the startup process will then stop at the "classic logon prompt" and ask you to login. Changing the following registry value: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DisableCAD" from 1 to 0 will require the user to press "Ctrl+Alt+Del" at the "classic logon prompt" to logon to the system.
If none of the above works then you can get help of different softwares, for example tweak Power toy.
Once installed you can, Open TweakUI and click "Logon" option in the left pane. Put a checkmark against the option "Show Administrator on Welcome Screen". Click OK to close TweakUI. Logoff and see if Welcome Screen lists Administrator login. Changes are immediate and you can use the Winkey + L to switch back to Welcome Screen to see Administrator account is listed.
Use this procedure to hide/unhide any user account from the Welcome Screen. Please remember, you can still login to a hidden account using CTRL+ALT+DEL classic logon method.
Well try it, I hope you will be successfull.
Regards,
YKKB.