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Missing Admin Account
Name: Boatbuoy Date: January 22, 2005 at 06:38:23 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: 256MB
Comment:
When I open User Accounts, the only accounts listed are User1(w/admin priveleges), User2, and Guest. Logged on as User1, when I try to create an account named Administrator, I get a message that it already exists. Where could it be or where has it gone?
Name: TheLegend Date: January 22, 2005 at 06:42:47 Pacific
Reply:
When you login as Safe Mode, the Administrator account will appeared. Administrator account is usually used for diagnosing problems. User1(w/admin priveleges) means that this is also an administrator account, so there is no need to login into the hidden one.
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Response Number 2
Name: Boatbuoy Date: January 22, 2005 at 07:05:52 Pacific
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Booted into Safe Mode and logged on as User1. Only the same 3 accounts appeared - no Administrator account. Still wondering where it went.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: January 22, 2005 at 07:08:44 Pacific
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If User1 is the very first account you created, it may be the Adm account anyway.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 4
Name: Boatbuoy Date: January 22, 2005 at 07:18:18 Pacific
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That's what I thought but - when Administrator is renamed, a new non-admin Administrator can then be created (presumably with no priveleges). Then hackers can beat on it all day and get nowhere. But when I try to create Administrator, it tells me it already exists. Could this be an anomoly not found in previous NT releases?
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