Thank you all for your responses. With your help and earlier answers on the
group I believe I have solved the problem, although I don't understand it
entirely! I am going to document it here so I have a record I can refer to
if this happens again, God forbid!
Last week when I was logged into account Bob I was examining my accounts:
There were Bob, Guest and Administrator. I turned off Guest. Somehow I
changed Bob into a guest account also. Amazing to me, in my dotage, I "must"
have added a password to the administrator account. Then I logged off Bob.
The log in screen showed *no* log in names to select! None, not even Admin.
I rebooted. Now the only name shown is Administrator and it responded to no
password I could suggest.
I rebooted in safe mode. It booted into Bob. Bob had no administrative
privileges so I could do nothing. I logged off in safe mode and the
administrator log in was offered me. I gave it no password pressed enter and
safe mode opened up for me. I opened the Users applet and tried to adjust
Bob's privileges. I was refused, indeed Bob was not an option to select. I
tried to create Bob and was told it already exists!
I created Robert with admin privileges.
I reboot into regular win xp home. Robert works fine except I've lost all my
standard Bob stuff. I look at C:/documents and settings and find Bob is
there. I moved the contents of the Bob folder (with appropriate backups)
into Robert and reboot.
A lot of stuff is back to normal. I don't quite understand how I got here,
but things could be worse.
Thanks for listening.
| You are talking about the ORIGINAL Windows XP Administrator account when
you
| state 'and the administrator account with a password', correct?
|
| | >I began using computers in the 60s, and I've never done this before!
| >
| > On one of my computers (winxp-home latest updates) I have two logons: a
| > user
| > account with no password and the administrator account with a password.
| >
| > I have forgotten the password! This means there are several vital
| > functions
| > I have no access to.
| >
| > So, what do I do? What are my options?
| >
| > Is there a way to reset the administrator account? Do I need to
reinstall
| > the operating system? Can I do so without reformatting the disk?
| >
| > Any suggestions appreciated.
| >
| > Bob
| >
| >
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