Rename administrator Account (WXP-Home)

[taino_7]

Is there a way to recover my administrator account and password once the administrator account is rename. How can you tell all of the accounts created on my machine with an account the have no admin rights?

[jrule]

User account settings are found in the User applet in the Control Panel. There you can rename accounts and change security settings from Administrator to Limited Account and visa versa. I'm not sure if I understand your question entirely, but if you boot into safe mode on XP Home the "administrator" account logon is available. If a password was not chosen when XP was loaded onto the machine you should be able to logon to the system without a password. From there you can go to the user applet and make changes.

Jrule

[PastaBoy4]

What if the administrator has a password and you cannot remember it and now I have no way of getting in

[jrule]

ERD Commander
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.winternals.com>www.winternals.com</a>
permits you to change the password to something else and will allow you access. But its $149.

Format and reload will do it too.

[PastaBoy4]

yea I have that program already but the laptop does not have any kinde of external media so I wasn't sure how to set up to network boot sice I can't boot off the cd