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03-27-2003, 01:08 PM
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Simple and myabe stupid question - How do I log in as Administrator?
I am using Win XP Pro and want to log in as administrator. How do I do this?
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03-27-2003, 01:12 PM
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When you choose the options menu by pressing F8 right after POST and BIOS, and choose safe mode you are then given the option to go in as administrator, I do believe that if you change the way you log in back to the classic windows 2000 type login you can also log in as administrator that way too..
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03-27-2003, 01:13 PM
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When the login screen appears, hit alt+ctrl+delete and type "administrator" as the username, and enter the administrator password.
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03-27-2003, 01:23 PM
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Thats good to know, I figured there had to be another way other than safe mode or having to change the way users login..
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03-27-2003, 01:27 PM
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OK thanks guys!
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03-27-2003, 01:27 PM
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On all my machines, I have to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL twice to get the logon...depends on how you have the user logon options set, quick logon, fast user switching etc...
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03-27-2003, 02:08 PM
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If you will be doing a lot of administrator login, you can set up XP to display your admin account along with the rest of them on the welcome screen.
Start Regedit (start > run > regedit): go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList\ Click on the EDIT Menu > NEW > Dword value Type Administrator for the new value Then doubleclick on this new key and change the value data to 1 from 0 |
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03-27-2003, 02:54 PM
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Just curious, why don't you just make yourself an admin?
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03-27-2003, 03:04 PM
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A Power user is an Admin, but there's always the "Administrator" account on any NT based machine.
That's so when the users screw things up beyond repair, the Administrator can go in and fix everything. 
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03-27-2003, 03:38 PM
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I needed to log in as administrator as I was following these instruction I had to make my broadband faster.
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03-27-2003, 04:36 PM
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is there any disadvantage to NOT being logged in as administrator??
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03-28-2003, 09:12 AM
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Stop winking at me!!!
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Sleepy,
The only disadvantage I see is that a person doesn't know what they are doing and they are on the PC as an Admin, then they can do some serious damage, but nothing that FDISK can't fix 
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03-28-2003, 12:11 PM
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the administrator account (or any other user that is a member of the admin group) is god.
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03-28-2003, 12:15 PM
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OK, you know that, and I know that, but for all intensive purposes, a power user has (almost) all admin rights.
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