Manny said:
HOW DO I SETUP WINDOWS AS ADMINISTRATOR ON WINDOWS XP PROF.
COMPUTOR. I added my self as administrator and my desktop and lot
of other things changed. I want to revert my changes and want to
run my computer without admimistrator because I am the only person
uses this computer.
Shenan said:
Do you actually utilize the account named "administrator"?
Manny said:
Why are you posting some of the time in all uppercase lettering?
What version of Windows XP is it? (Home? Professional? Media Center?
other?)
I am guessing you want to do this for security and risk management reasons
(stop using the Administrator account for daily activities - that is...)?
Your question/subject line and subsequent answers have made it difficult to
pin down exactly what it is you are trying to do and have done.
Before following the directins below to create a new user, etc - I want to
be sure that is what you want. It sounds to me like you had a user, decided
to try and do *something* (although what is unclear) and then you suddenly
were logging on as a different user.
If I had to guess (and I do at this point) you used to turn on your computer
and it would just come up to your desktop and you would use your computer.
It is highly likely that means you were logging in (at that time) with the
user named "administrator" who (naturally) has full priviledges.
You decided to create a new account and did so - at that point the machine
may have stopped automatically logging in and/or you noticed your desktop
was completely different and things 'went missing' on you. (If so - what
actually happened is you started using a different account cvompletely at
that point and the user "Administrator" disappeared/did not appear from/on
the "Welcome" screen.)
What you want now is your old desktop, Internet Favorites, My Documents, etc
back... Right? Or are you trying to create a new user to utilize safely?
In fact - ignore the stuff beyond here untillyou can tell us a narrative of
what you have done so we can better determine what you are trying to do and
how you got to this point...
Anyway - you need to keep the user named "administrator" and stop using that
as your primary account. Simply use the user "administrator" to create a
new "limited" account for yourself. You start using the new account.
If you want to easily transfer the current account settings to the new
account - you can use the built-in Files and Settings Transfer (F.A.S.T.)
wizard to accomplish that easily.
The simplistic instructions (with links to more details for each individual
step...)
1) Log on as the administrator and crete your new account with whatever
username/password you like (your name is fine.)
How to create and configure user accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279783
Create and customize user accounts
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/winxp/accounts.mspx
Short video on how to create an account in Windows XP
2) Log off the administrator account and log on with the new account you
just created.
3) Logoff and reboot the machine.
4) Logon as the administrator.
You may have the Welcome screen setup as your default logon method - if
so - you may no longer see the "Administrator" account listed. If that is
the case - when it goes to the Welcome screen (you may have to log off the
new account to do this if you did not put in a password for the new account)
simply press the key-combination of "CTRL+ALT+DEL twice in a row quickly to
get the 'calssic' logon prompt where you type in the username
(administrator) and password (if any.)
5. If you wish to transfer some of the stuff from this account to the new
account and you really don't know much about computers - this should be the
easiest way to ensure you get everything a standard user would want...
How to use the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293118
Following those instructions - consider the computer you are on to be the
"old computer" when logged in as "administrator" and store the results in a
directory at the root of the C drive or - better yet - on a USB memory stick
or something external. Consider the same computer the 'new computer' when
logged on as the user you created in step 1 and read from the location you
created in this step.
