windows xp home user account question?
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change your user account type to administrator again.\nor ask ur girlfriend to do that if you dont know her password.
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that sucks, there are a couple of things you can do though, if the information on the computer isn't important, you could reinstall windows at the expense of the data, or since you have a username and password, you should have also set up a admin account...type this address and follow instructions: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
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did she also make a user account on your computer? if so delete it and change your password to your account so she cannot use your computer at all.\nif you need any help on windows xp accounts write to me.
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if you want access to the user accounts in xp, and the standard window from within control panel isn't working, you can do this:\n\n• click the 'start' button\n• click 'run'\n• type: control userpasswords2\n• 'ok' it\n\nin the window which appears you can add/remove users, change passwords and loads of other options.
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If you are using a domain as a login, set their membership as a guest.  By default, a domain user does not have administrative rights to the desktop.  By the way, make sure you have an administrator password on each xp machine or you can forget anything else you do.
283121
Honestly, your best option is to just put in the windows disk and then reboot. Boot from CD and then it will allow you to reset all user accounts when it comes up.\nGood Luck!
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What operating system? For xp home you *must* start in safe mode to get to the administrator account (hit F8 while windows is starting up to get the option to start in safe mode) If it's xp pro you can either do the safe mode way, or press ctrl+alt+delete twice at the welcome screen to bring up a different logon screen where you can type in Administrator as the user, and your administrator password, if any.
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You have to have administrator rights to the computer. The owner of the computer is usually assigned administrator rights. They can log in and control the others profiles on the computer.\n\nProfiles can be added or deleted.\n\nIn XP just go to Start/Control Panel/User Accounts\n\nThere you can make the necessary changes.
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If you can login to safe-mode (by clicking F8) when the computer turns on and logging in as Administrator and going that route.\n\nHowever, if you cannot login as administrator, search the internet for Hirens Boot CD and make a disc. The hirens disc as numerous usefull utilities including a password reset for XP. Good Luck!
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No- the only thing that will let you do that is user rights and permissions, and the only Windows operating systems that give you that level of control are the server products and XP Pro. Unless you have a domain in your house, Pro is the way to do it.  XP Home is the same thing as Pro, except it does not have those tools, and it cannot be joined to a domain. One answer per question- if you have XP Pro, say so and ask again, and I will tell you how.
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you have to create a new user account.  that folder is named after the login name in xp.  you may be able to modify your account name but I've never tried and not sure that would work.
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If you are running Windows XP Home I have a solution that will work, I know because this has happened to me. First of all I know this doesnt work with XP Pro but im not sure if it will work with erlier versions of Windows like 98 or 95, and it must be with the default installation and user account setup. Here we go;\n\nWhen XP Home is installed and a the Admin User account is set-up, Windows also created a hidden Admin user account with no password! This hidden admin user account will only be shown when you start up in "Safe Mode", To start in safe mode you must restart the computer and tap either the F2, F8, F9, or deleate key, I forget which one it was for me but it is sometimes different with other machines so check your user manual or do a search on the internet if you can get to another machine with internet access. but when you do that a menu will be shown with some options, jsut pick "safe mode" and you will see the login screen with the Admin user account you set-up along with the now viewable Hidden Admin user account, Pick the Hidden User Account and it will ask you weather you want to start safe mode with networking and balh blah blah, just pick without networking but it really doesnt matter since your just making system changes, then you should beable to reset the password to your account via "User Accounts" in Controll Pannel, If it asks you for a password to change that account password just remember that the Hidden User Account you are logged on to has no password so you dont need to enter a password. And also I would sugest resteeing the password to "nothing" so you dont forget it again lol :P, and that should work.\n\nBut if you didnt get it reset and you dont have any personal files you need in the account you lost the password to, from the hidden admin account, you can also set up another admin account that you can log-into reagurly :), GOOD LUCK!!!
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If the machine has a default installation of Windows XP Home edition, there is probably no Administrator password set.\n\nThe Administrator account does not show up on the logon screen but it's easy to access it.\n\nPress CTRL+ALT+DEL twice.  You will see the standard Windows logon prompt.  Type Administrator for the account and leave the password blank.  Press Enter.  If no password was set, you will be logged in with full rights.\n\nOnce you're logged in, you can change the password for the other account in Control Panel.  While you're there, set a password for the Administrator account.\n\nIf there's an Administrator password set, you can go here for a cracking utility that works pretty well on most systems:\n\nhttp://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/\n\nAlso, most computer shops should have a copy of ERD Commander and should crack the Admin password for $50.00 or so.  It just takes about 5 minutes.  This will not break security like the above link will, though that isn't an issue with XP Home.
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At the deepest level, you can enter the BIOS when starting your computer, and activate password protection there. This password will be demanded whenever your computer is started, before loading the operating system.\n\nIf you were a Unix user, you wouldn't have to ask this question, so I'll limit my reply to Windows XP:\n\nUnder Start -> Settings (I think, translated from a different language version: between "documents" and "search") go to "system -> user administration" and click "change user access" (or similar, third option from the top).
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give them all user accounts and then only give them priviliges of guest\n\nthats wat i do in windows should work sam anyway gl trying
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There should really only be XP Home Full or XP Home Upgrade.  I'm not aware of any variations on the home edition in terms of versions.  And there's no volume licensing for it, so any version of home should work unless you try to install the full version and only have an upgrade key - then you'll need a key from a previous version of Windows.
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In Windows 2000 Professional you cannot get that screen that shows the accounts like Windows XP Professional also if you upgrade to Windows XP and your computer is on a network you cannot use the welcome screen and is bad practise for a business for security reasons and also when the log on screen appears just delete administrator and enter the user name. Also try setting the user account to memorable names