Administrator

[POPS]

How can I find out if I am administrator.And if not , how
to sign on as admin. Thanks..POPS -30-

 

[Robin Walker [MVP]]

How can I find out if I am administrator.

Open control panel "User Accounts": that will list the type of each account.

And if not , how to sign on as admin.

Ask the person who is Administrator of your PC, who is capable of creating
further Administrator accounts.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

With XP Home, the default user type is a limited user, I believe.

In XP Home, you need to restart the machine in Safe mode, which will give
you the opportunity to log in as Administrator, usually with a blank
password.

Once logged in as administrator, you can use the Users applet in Control
Panel to change your chosen account to an administrator.

 

[POPS]

-----Original Message-----

How can I find out if I am administrator.

Open control panel "User Accounts": that will list the type of each account.

And if not , how to sign on as admin.

Ask the person who is Administrator of your PC, who is capable of creating
further Administrator accounts.

--
Robin Walker [MVP Networking]
(e-mail address removed)


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Thank you, Robin. I am administrator...POPS -30-

 

[Robin Walker [MVP]]

With XP Home, the default user type is a limited user, I believe.

If only that were true, we would not have a fraction of the malware that we
suffer now in the world.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I worked with a colleague over the phone the other day--there were two
"visible" accounts on the machine, and both were limited--he was unable to
create a VPN connection, nor to change properties of TCP/IP from fixed to
automatic--on a laptop he was using on vacation.

It was a machine his wife had borrowed from an employer, and they consulted
him, and he was oblivious to why this should be.

I finally thought to check whether this was XP Home, and indeed it was, and
he rebooted to safe mode, logged in as administrator and created a new
account for his wife as an administrator. We were then able to set IP to
automatic, create a VPN connection and get him connected to his desktop at
one of my client sites.

I had thought that the default account was usually called "owner" and was a
quasi-administrator--there are a few things that can only be done in the
real safe-mode administrator, I believe.

OK--I'm sitting at my wife's machine now, which is running XP Home until I
can get a copy of Pro to go on it. And, indeed, if you create a new user,
by default, they are an administrator. Somebody was doing the right thing
on that laptop--and probably won't thank me for interfering when it comes
back from vacation!