I've deleted my administrator

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Can anyone help ? I have managed to delete the administrator account, now the
only user account I have does not have administrative rights, so I seem to be
stuck in no mans land ?
 
Can anyone help ? I have managed to delete the administrator account, now the
only user account I have does not have administrative rights, so I seem to be
stuck in no mans land ?
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XP won't allow you to delete the only administrator account on the system.
Either you deleted a user account in the administrator group -or- you were
using the built-in administrator account. If you were using the built-in
account and created another user, then the built-in account "drops off" of
the Welcome screen. When this happens, it's still available but it takes a
few extra steps to get to it.

XP Home: Boot to Safe Mode and log on with the account with the user name
of Administrator. If you did not assign a password to this account, leave
the password field blank.

XP Pro: At the Welcome screen, press Ctrl +Alt+ Del twice. The classic
style logon prompt will appear. Type "Administrator" (without the quotes)
into the user name field. For the password, either type in the one you gave
to the account or leave it blank if you never assigned a password to it.

Once the built-in account drops of the Welcome screen, it doesn't return on
its own. You can create another account within the administrative group and
transfer your files to it. Use this new account as your everyday account
and leave the other one in reserve for troubleshooting purposes.

OR you could use TweakUI for XP to force the account back on to the Welcome
screen. TweakUI for XP is one of the power toys that can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
 
Sharon I have the same problem as hamish. However I tried what you said
and no matter with safe mode I opened, there is more than on in Win
xps2, home
I can only open the user account. I stupidly opened a user account
with the same name as my administrator acct.
I have read and read and still don't know what to do.
HELP..............
redirtgirl
 
Sharon I have the same problem as hamish. However I tried what you said
and no matter with safe mode I opened, there is more than on in Win
xps2, home
I can only open the user account. I stupidly opened a user account
with the same name as my administrator acct.
I have read and read and still don't know what to do.
HELP..............
redirtgirl
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If you're starting in Safe Mode, you have XP Home. There should be an
account listed named Administrator. Are you not seeing that? This is a
built-in account and can only be deleted if there is at least one other
account on the system with administrator status. XP protects us from
ourselves and insists on the existence of at least *one* admin account.
 
I've had my administrator account deleted as well. I have the feeling it
might be some virus I picked up. I shut down my computer this past Friday,
went away for the weekend, logged on Sunday night and the logon was gone. I
haven't tried what you suggested yet, but I wondered if this is something
going around. Has anyone heard anything?
 
I've had my administrator account deleted as well. I have the feeling it
might be some virus I picked up. I shut down my computer this past Friday,
went away for the weekend, logged on Sunday night and the logon was gone. I
haven't tried what you suggested yet, but I wondered if this is something
going around. Has anyone heard anything?
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Yes, that is a possibility. While there XP protects against mistakes that a
user can do, there is plenty of malware around - viruses and adware/spyware
- that will change permissions.

If access is cut of this way, then you're a bit stuck. If the system is
cleaned up, using System Restore to go back to a date before the changes
made by the intrusion *might* help. A repair install will probably
perpetuate the changes rather than reverting them to default. A clean
install may be necessary to put things completely right again.

Booting with something like Bart's PE and editing the registry manually can
be done but is complicated. More of a hand's on experience than something
easily related via the newsgroups. If there is a competent computer repair
service in your area, they should be able to do this for you if it's beyond
your skills.
 
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