Administrator On Welcome Screen

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...see what I mean? Even I mispelled it!!!! ;-)

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio
 
Okay, this is the full story:
Show Administrator on Welcome Screen in Windows Vista

Step One:
Bring up Windows Explorer. Right click on "Computer"
Select Manage
Scroll to "Local Users and Groups"
Look at the word Administrator. If you see a small red x near the "A" in
Administrator, then the account is

disabled (the default). Bring up Properties and uncheck the box that says
"Account is Disabled"

Step Two:
start -> run = "control userpasswords2" select administrator account,
click reset password (input new pass) / Ok

Step Three:
start -> run = " regedit " create the key below
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Note: Most likely, the last two folders do not exist (SpecialAccounts &
UserList).

In UserList...
create "DWORD (32bit) Value"
Value Name: Administrator
Value Data: 1

Reboot!
 
I finally got this to work. I had to set something else in the Registry to
force the next boot to boot to Admin. Then, once I was logged in, I removed
the registry entry that forced me in. Now I was back to normal but logged
into admin. Then after rebooting, it showed up on the welcome screen.

Bottom line, is that I had to somehow get logged into the Admin account to
one time to sort of get it Activated.

Of course, all of the previous things, in this post still had to be done.
 
I managed at first attempt, but then I guess I was lucky. Glad you made it
finally ;-)

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio
 
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