I am running XP Pro and am currently doing alot of my work using my Admin account. I do not have a User account which I know is asking for problems (ie. trojans etc.) The way I had it set up before was when I booted up my PC It would automatically take to me to my desktop and the Administrator account was never used. I then got to toying around and got myself in a jam. So here is what I want: My present Admin account with all it's settings changed to a User account which logs on automatically and a seperate admin account for well, administative purposes only. Thanks a bunch for your help.

Hi booboo, First, this is what I think you are asking: 1) You want to change your account from administrator-type to user-type. 2) The new user-account has to log on automatically 3) You want to keep an Administrator account Okay, more than one way to do this, so here's the easy one: 3) XP will not allow any situation where there isn't at least one Administrator account. There probably is one on your machine right now(hidden). So no real need to create a separate administrator-type, although it may be useful to add one (always password-protect admin-accounts). 1) ControlPanel>UserAccounts will let you change the type of your account to 'limited'. 2) START>Run, type this into Run-box: control userpasswords2 uncheck the 'users must...' when you press apply, it will ask a default user to log on automatically That should do it. If you want to be a Power-User on the new account then post for more. svg

What a great help svg but I need to ask this, how do I change my admin account to my user account keeping all the settings programs and such. I then just want to have an admin account stripped down with a bare desktop for admin purposes.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. ControlPanel>UserAccounts Allows you to change both name & type of the account Your settings will NOT be affected by this. There probably is an Administrator(bare desktop...) on your computer already. Try this to see all the users on your computer: Open a CommandPrompt(just start c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe) Type this in there: net users You will then see a full list of users on your computer. There will be a SupportXXXX for Microsoft's Remote Help and an Administrator account also. That Administrator is the 'bare' account that's always accessible via this procedure: on the Welcome-screen(if it's enabled - do a logoff otherwise), press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice to get the 'old' login screen. Type in 'Administrator' as name and the password should be blank, although the person who installed your computer could have enabled a password. By the way, all accounts with administrator-rights should have passwords (as a safety-measure). Post back if there's any misunderstanding on my behalf.