Built-In Administrator in WinXP

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Wanted to log in as a local (built-in) Administrator in WinXP Home
Edition,
but cannot do it. The system returns "Log in impossible because of account
restrictions". It is strange but fact that I can log in as local admin in
safe mode,
but I don't need safe mode. I need normal mode with local admin rights.
Any suggestions?
 
Agent said:
Wanted to log in as a local (built-in) Administrator in WinXP Home
Edition,
but cannot do it. The system returns "Log in impossible because of
account restrictions". It is strange but fact that I can log in as
local admin in safe mode,
but I don't need safe mode. I need normal mode with local admin
rights. Any suggestions?
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Create another user with Admin Rights so you can use him in normal mode.
 
I have another user with admin rights, but I need local admin account.
why the system doesn't let me in (in normal mode)? Only safe mode.
was it made on purpose?
 
Agent said:
I have another user with admin rights, but I need local admin
account. why the system doesn't let me in (in normal mode)? Only
safe mode. was it made on purpose?
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If you have a user with Admin Rights on the PC - that is LOCAL Admin
rights..
(Are you in a domain?)

XP Home limits the access to the Administrator account on purpose - "by
design".
 
I'm not in a domain. Just home PC.
I installed Norton Internet Security 2003 Trial Version.
The trial period expired. Now I want to uninstall NIS, but
cannot do it. It was installed under Supervisor account
and it during the uninstall process NIS asks to log in as a
Supervisor. I understand that NIS means its own internal
Accounts system, not Windows' one. But I was logged in
as an Admin and could not uninstall NIS. So that is why I
wanted to log in as a built-in Administrator hoping that this
time NIS will not tell me that I haven't got enough rights to
uninstall it.
After the trial period of using NIS expired, the Account feature
in NIS became not active. I do not want to renew License and
want to get rid of this NIS, but literary cannot do it.
 
Agent said:
I'm not in a domain. Just home PC.
I installed Norton Internet Security 2003 Trial Version.
The trial period expired. Now I want to uninstall NIS, but
cannot do it. It was installed under Supervisor account
and it during the uninstall process NIS asks to log in as a
Supervisor. I understand that NIS means its own internal
Accounts system, not Windows' one. But I was logged in
as an Admin and could not uninstall NIS. So that is why I
wanted to log in as a built-in Administrator hoping that this
time NIS will not tell me that I haven't got enough rights to
uninstall it.
After the trial period of using NIS expired, the Account feature
in NIS became not active. I do not want to renew License and
want to get rid of this NIS, but literary cannot do it.
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...=2003 for Windows 2000/Me/98/XP&osv=&osv_lvl=

or, more reasonably:
http://snipurl.com/6n5z

Particularly:
To remove Norton Internet Security or Norton AntiVirus using removal
utilities
 
Agent said:
Wanted to log in as a local (built-in) Administrator in WinXP Home
Edition,
but cannot do it. The system returns "Log in impossible because of
account restrictions". It is strange but fact that I can log in as
local admin in safe mode,
but I don't need safe mode. I need normal mode with local admin
rights. Any suggestions?
Click to expand...


By design, the only way to log into the built-in Administrator
account of WinXP Home is to reboot into Safe Mode. If you need
administrative privileges while in normal operations, modify an
account you've created.

HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783



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