During the New Year’s holidays, I wanted to try the Remote Desktop of WinXP.
For safety and as asked, I created a PW for log on to my Desktop as
Administrator.
I noted it down as well as the hit of my PW in a notebook and shut down my
Desktop.

Two minutes later, after turning on my Desktop, I was denied to log on to
Windows as Administrator by using my newly created Administrator PW.
[The Error msg shows something like this: The system is unable to let you
log on. Please ensure that your user name is correct… and enter your PW
again. All PW are in cases sensitive.] Therefore, I was unable to conducting
the Remote Desktop testing.

Since then, I’m only allowed to log on to my Desktop Windows as a Guest with
blank PW.
And therefore, I’ve no right to make a System Restore to get out of this
trouble.

Before this incident, the Windows log on screen appeared at boot looks like
this:
Log on to Windows
-----------------------------------------
Name: Administrator
Password:
-----------------------------------------
[Without a Welcome screen]
I just pressed Enter to log on to Windows without entering any PW.

But now, the log on screen at boot changed to this:
Log on to Windows
----------------------------------------
Name: Guest
Password:
--------------------------------------
[Without a Welcome screen]

I tried to boot my Desktop into Safe Mode by pressing F8, but I got the same
log on windows as Guest, just as in Normal Mode.
As my desktop got no [Welcome Screen] at boot, I was unable to try
[Press: Ctrl+Alt+Del] twice to get back the Admin log on windows.

In this situation, how could I log on to my Desktop as Administrator?
I sincerely hope that any Expert can help to solve this Admin PW problem and
thanks a lot in advance.

mtik

Did you try logging off of the Guest account, and using CTRL-ALT-DEL at the Welcome Screen? Alternatively, see http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/editor.html for a method for resetting the Administrator password.

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"mtik2000" <mtik2000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news0742CC8-FF82-4A1B-8B5E-E3AC0AFA5F62@microsoft.com...
>
> During the New Year’s holidays, I wanted to try the Remote Desktop of WinXP.
> For safety and as asked, I created a PW for log on to my Desktop as
> Administrator.
> I noted it down as well as the hit of my PW in a notebook and shut down my
> Desktop.
>
> Two minutes later, after turning on my Desktop, I was denied to log on to
> Windows as Administrator by using my newly created Administrator PW.
> [The Error msg shows something like this: The system is unable to let you
> log on. Please ensure that your user name is correct… and enter your PW
> again. All PW are in cases sensitive.] Therefore, I was unable to conducting
> the Remote Desktop testing.
>
> Since then, I’m only allowed to log on to my Desktop Windows as a Guest with
> blank PW.
> And therefore, I’ve no right to make a System Restore to get out of this
> trouble.
>
> Before this incident, the Windows log on screen appeared at boot looks like
> this:
> Log on to Windows
> -----------------------------------------
> Name: Administrator
> Password:
> -----------------------------------------
> [Without a Welcome screen]
> I just pressed Enter to log on to Windows without entering any PW.
>
> But now, the log on screen at boot changed to this:
> Log on to Windows
> ----------------------------------------
> Name: Guest
> Password:
> --------------------------------------
> [Without a Welcome screen]
>
> I tried to boot my Desktop into Safe Mode by pressing F8, but I got the same
> log on windows as Guest, just as in Normal Mode.
> As my desktop got no [Welcome Screen] at boot, I was unable to try
> [Press: Ctrl+Alt+Del] twice to get back the Admin log on windows.
>
> In this situation, how could I log on to my Desktop as Administrator?
> I sincerely hope that any Expert can help to solve this Admin PW problem and
> thanks a lot in advance.
>
> mtik
>