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Built in Administrator account disabled

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New_Yogi

Flightless Bird
Hi - I accidentally checked "disable built in administrator account" while I
was trying some stupid things in my PC. Now I can not log in to my PC. Is
there any way to by pass the log in screen? I have windows -XP. I tried to
log in from safemode command prompt option, but it is still taking me to the
log in screen instead of displaying DOS-prompt. Please help. TIA
 
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Pegasus [MVP]

Flightless Bird
"New_Yogi" <New_Yogi@discussions.microsoft.com> said this in news item
news:41026B9C-B83B-4FBF-B160-33BC4D19483E@microsoft.com...
> Hi - I accidentally checked "disable built in administrator account" while
> I
> was trying some stupid things in my PC. Now I can not log in to my PC. Is
> there any way to by pass the log in screen? I have windows -XP. I tried to
> log in from safemode command prompt option, but it is still taking me to
> the
> log in screen instead of displaying DOS-prompt. Please help. TIA


AFAIR, the standard Nordahl password resetting CD has a facility to
re-enable accounts. After resolving this issue, consider creating a second
admin account. Having a single admin account can be very unforgiving.
 
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