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curriegrad2004:
--- Quote from: Drunken Watermelon on August 12, 2009, 09:35:16 am ---Home has an administrator account that only works in safe mode.
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It can be enabled under normal operating conditions. Go into compmgmt.msc and give it a shot. But enabling that was pre-SP2 days. Don't know if Post-SP2 patched that or not.
EDIT: Found it. Seems like my memory is fading ever since I ditched XP Home for XP Pro back in 2002
Instructions to enable Admin account in Home Edition
1. Launch Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList in the Registry Editor.
3. Double-click the Administrator key in the right pane.
4. If the Administrator key doesn’t exist, right-click on the above tree in the pane, choose New, DWORD Value, name it Administrator and press .
5. Type 1 in the “Value data” box, and press .
Drunken Watermelon:
--- Quote from: curriegrad2004 on August 12, 2009, 09:36:49 am ---It can be enabled under normal operating conditions. Go into compmgmt.msc and give it a shot. But enabling that was pre-SP2 days. Don't know if Post-SP2 patched that or not.
EDIT: Found it. Seems like my memory is fading ever since I ditched XP Home for XP Pro back in 2002
Instructions to enable Admin account in Home Edition
1. Launch Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList in the Registry Editor.
3. Double-click the Administrator key in the right pane.
4. If the Administrator key doesn’t exist, right-click on the above tree in the pane, choose New, DWORD Value, name it Administrator and press .
5. Type 1 in the “Value data” box, and press .
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Tried that before, it causes the welcome screen to display the normal users but not the administrator under normal mode, logging in manually pops up with some error that I can't remember. The apparent fix being to add a password to the administrator account.
Derailing this thread a bit here.
Silver:
This is Ben posting through Silver here.
Okay, so some odd things happened. After I posted this, I decided I wanted to go watch some YouTube. A minute into the video, a command prompt screen opened up on it's own. Instinctively, I kind of closed it without looking what it actually was, but I know those things shouldn't open out of nowhere like that.
So then I decided to disconnect my internet and do a quick virus scan. While scanning, I decided to walk away to let it do its scan.
When walking back a few minutes later, I saw another window has opened. "Windows Automatic Updater" has updated and wanted me to restart my computer. Yeah, I don't think that normally happens either, but you can correct me on that.
However, I am under the assumption that this is a virus trouble.
curriegrad2004:
--- Quote from: Silver on August 12, 2009, 05:59:44 pm ---Okay, so some odd things happened. After I posted this, I decided I wanted to go watch some YouTube. A minute into the video, a command prompt screen opened up on it's own. Instinctively, I kind of closed it without looking what it actually was, but I know those things shouldn't open out of nowhere like that.
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Some updates do just that when they get installed. It could might just have been Internet Explorer updating or there was a .NET Framework security update. I can't really remember...
--- Quote from: benpc91 ---When walking back a few minutes later, I saw another window has opened. "Windows Automatic Updater" has updated and wanted me to restart my computer. Yeah, I don't think that normally happens either, but you can correct me on that.
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Did you configure your PC to automatically download and install updates on a specific time of the week? If you did then it may be the cause, otherwise there could be malware on your machine.
Silver:
Once more, this is Ben.
Firefox user, so would it normally do that.
As for the auto update, I never set it to do so.
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