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(R)epair option problem
Enter Administrator in the User Name box. If you set up a password for this account, enter it now. Otherwise, leave the password box blank. Good luck Nepatsfan "chesjak" Can you please help Regards Being asked for a password for the administrator account leads me to believe you ended up in the Recovery Console.

Using safe mode to circumvent password
All have identical accounts set up - a user account (no password), and an admin account (password protected). All run Windows XP Professional, Apparently, during the factory install, a password wasn't set for the built in "Administrator" account, and this remains, even if you set a password for the new

Removing Users
Joe Richards humorexpr...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 active_directory No problem. I won't post anything I don't want spread around so like I told Alex in the It is called Secure500 because it is hardcoded to prevent password change of the built-in administrator account which always has a RID of 500.

I deleted the administrator account
"JS" wrote: Note: The default password for the built in Windows Administrator account is normally blank (none). For XP Home users: Boot the computer into Safe Mode Do this by pressing the F8 key Type in "Administrator" (without the quotes) and 'if' you assigned a password when you set up Windows, then enter it.

Password requested by xp home when none set
Plus you really should at least set a password for the built in administrator account. Jeff "Hall" <h...@garp.com> wrote in message news:uzn9vOktEHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... I'm the only user on this XP Pro system. So my login ID has no password. I created a scheduled task, and in the password prompt,

New XP set up for one person
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'lost' administrator privledges
You will then be prompted to "Please type the password for DS Restore Mode Administrator Account:". Type the new password that you would like to use. The absence of a hack on this suggests to me that MS built a hash and encrypted it that is unique to the machine such that a parallel installation of another

Wireless USB Disconnects Work Around?
Then I entered the correct administrator account and password, then an error "Logon Message" displays: Unable to log you on because of an account restriction. Can you please advice what I need to set in XPP to enable my HH to logon to XPP? thank you for your great help in advance. .

Changing Admin password
A question: If I have created other Administrative accounts, should I still be able to log in with the built-in Administrator account? I started to set a Password from this screen but chickened out when I saw the warnings about loosing some data if blah, blah, blah. Is that where you suggested I add the password

Password Recovery Question: Getting AD Admin password from DS ...
Bruce Chambers had written: "Only if the computer owner is so utterly foolish as to have not set a strong password on the built-in Administrator account the first time he booted the Isn't that a security risk when you boot in safe mode, since there is no password associated to the default Administrator Account?

Password Never Expires Option
It looks like the built in Administrator account in SBS4.5 was quite touchy, in fact exchange used it. Due to the lack of documents published that reference SBS2k, it looks like changing the Adminstrator password may not be bad. (?). Third party aps that have been set up to use it, for whatever reason,

Password Issues in Win 2000 Professional
The only way to log back on to the machine now is with a local administrator account. Try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del twice at the logon screen and try to log on using the built in Administrator account, any network/IT administrator worth his salt should have set a password on the account but maybe the account has no

Restore Windows XP When Not Admin and No Password
Your account has most probably been set to "Limited" You obviously have no password security on your machine at all. log into the Administrator Account, re-set your account to have Admin rights, and password-protect both your account, and the built-in administrator account so "no-one" can do this again.

Reset XP Administrative Password
Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows. If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have use NTpasswd to change the built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy

New User security questions
I *thought* (or should I say assumed) this indicated that no password had been set for "root", which also is a member of the Administrator Group. There MUST be an Administrator account, it can be renamed but it CANNOT be deleted. Check the account "root". Does it say "Built-in Account for administering the

Password became invalid
**It was the built in Administrator account. At the time, I was the only one on the computer so I didn't see it necessary to create any other accounts. The account was not set up with a password. 2. How were you logging in the the computer when there was only that one account? Was a password assigned?

Migrating NT4 Exchange 5.5 to SBS 2003
Alex Marshall Reply_In_Newsgroup microsoft public windowsxp general If you can get to the welcome screen just hit ctrl+alt+del two times and it will reveal the hidden built in Administrator account. You can log into this account to change your own accounts password. "Vince" <vincesha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

New user Creation created mountain of problems
Administrator doesn't show up under user account under my user defined account with administrator rights. Do I need to know the default password? What is that? Thanks, Chas There is the built-in Administrator account, yes. By default, it has no password. Unless the you deliberately set the Administrator's password

Why not NT?
My system was built new [not off shelf] with XP pre-installed & have been following this NG to build my knowledge of XP but have no password for my Administrator account - that I am aware of [ie none advised by my retailer]. What I have learned over the past few months lurking here tells me [amongst other things]

Password Change
XP Home has a built-in restriction on the Administrator account preventing it from running in normal mode. That way, the Administrator account is preserved for backup My second question is: how do I set the password aging on a per-user basis, meaning that I want to have the first account with no password aging,