ok, now that I have XP MCE OEM installed, I started out with just "administrator" 
which was a superuser/root/administrator account, right. So I wanted to create a 
user account for daily use. I went to do that, and it required me to make another 
root account first, so I made one called "root" that was an "administrator". Then 
I created one called "brian" which was a "limited user". Question is, where did "administrator" 
go? If I log in under "root" and go to the User Accounts manager, I see only "root" 
and "brian", where is that original "administrator"? Did it get deleted? I certainly 
did not intentionally delete it. It is a concern because if I can't access it, I 
can't change the password periodically which in theory could be a security hole if 
a hacker gains access to the PC. Let me know your thoughts, guys... 

--Brian

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re: original administrator account? Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 7:43 pm Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted) From the Welcome screen you log on with the Administrator account, buy pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to bring up the logon window, which then allows you to log on as Administrator, or from the Safe mode. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: original administrator account? Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 8:59 pm Posted by geek9pm (903 messages posted) Steve, why did you have to tell him? We could have had a lot of fun with this! Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: original administrator account? Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 9:06 pm Posted by Spexx (1951 messages posted) LOL. I thought it, you said it. I still remember the first time I came across this and thought "well where on earth did that go?" or words to that effect. Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: original administrator account? Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 11:59 pm Posted by Brian (17 messages posted) all right, that worked, that is weird as hell though! give me a normal UNIX login procedure any day! :) does Win XP home do that as well? That's definitely a "Windows Annoyance" lol ;-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: original administrator account? Monday, August 18, 2008 at 2:11 am Posted by Spexx (1951 messages posted) XP Home is even worse. You only get the Administrator account in Safe mode with that one. I forget that sometimes and it can be frustrating. Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: original administrator account? Monday, August 18, 2008 at 4:22 pm Posted by Steve (19681 messages posted) On XP Home need to boot to Safe Mode. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum