Missing Administrator Icon In Welcome Screen

[Salim Bharmal]

I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without my
Amin
previledges. Can some one please help?

 

[matt hopkins]

with windows theres a built in administrator account witch is usually hidden
or locked away youll probably have to unlock that

this page will tell you how to unlock it
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/05/07/unhide-the-administrator-account-in-windows-xp/


"Salim Bharmal" <Salim Bharmal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A9DBBBA-8918-4F88-891B-47B775F3F43F@microsoft.com...
>I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
> Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without
> my
> Amin
> previledges. Can some one please help?

 

[Kerry Brown]

"Salim Bharmal" <Salim Bharmal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A9DBBBA-8918-4F88-891B-47B775F3F43F@microsoft.com...
>I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
> Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without
> my
> Amin
> previledges. Can some one please help?


What version of Windows?

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

 

[Malke]

Salim Bharmal wrote:
> I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration User
> Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes without my
> Amin
> previledges. Can some one please help?

It sounds like you 1) have XP Pro 2) were using the built-in
Administrator account for your daily work 3) have now created a second
user account with administrative privileges. If this is correct, the
built-in Administrator account is hidden by design when you create a
second user account with administrative privileges.

If my assumption is correct, you can still log into the built-in
Administrator account by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del at the Welcome Screen. This
will get you the classic logon box. Enter "Administrator" for the user
name (without the quotes of course) and your password.

If this is *not* your situation, then please post back with a better
description of your system. You may wish to refer to this link to see
what details to include in a newsgroup post in order to get focused help.

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

[wng_z3r0]

If Malke's suggestion doesn't help, try this:
Copy the following line by highlighting it and then pressing ctrl-c
net users >"%userprofile%\desktop\output.txt" & notepad
"%userprofile%\desktop\output.txt"

Go to start->run (or if you are using windows vista windows key + r), and
then press ctrl-v to paste the above line into the run box.

Press ok. A notepad window should open with the accounts on your computer.
Please post back the results in the notepad window. You may wish to change
any personally identifying usernames.

wng
"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:%23fJ2sxOCIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Salim Bharmal wrote:
>> I was creating a new user account. Now I cannot find my Administration
>> User Account I con in the welcome screen. I can't perform any changes
>> without my Amin
>> previledges. Can some one please help?
>
> It sounds like you 1) have XP Pro 2) were using the built-in
> Administrator account for your daily work 3) have now created a second
> user account with administrative privileges. If this is correct, the
> built-in Administrator account is hidden by design when you create a
> second user account with administrative privileges.
>
> If my assumption is correct, you can still log into the built-in
> Administrator account by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del at the Welcome Screen. This
> will get you the classic logon box. Enter "Administrator" for the user
> name (without the quotes of course) and your password.
>
> If this is *not* your situation, then please post back with a better
> description of your system. You may wish to refer to this link to see what
> details to include in a newsgroup post in order to get focused help.
>
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User