I upgraded Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro and I'm having some problem with user accounts. I always used the Admin. account in 2k but now I'm having tons of troubles using it with XP! I tried to set up other accounts for my family members but XP will "only show Admin. account if no other accounts are available" so now I can't see all of my settings and all of my stuff since I can't log onto that account anymore! When I start-up the Admin. account (which I even tried renaming from the Administrative Tools in Control Panel) won't show up!
Does anyone know how I can fix this? I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get the Admin. account to show up on log-in and I can't figure out how to switch to it.
I just disabled the "disable ctrl+alt+del requirement to log in" option in the local security manager.. It doesn't show the screen where you click on a user to log in, but I can log in now.
Does anyone else have any ideas? I'd like to be able to have the option to log-in to the Admin. account as well as other accounts when my computer starts up, but it won't show the admin. account.
You actually are NOT supposed to login as Administrator in XP.
Just make a user account and give it Admin permissions... same thing, and you don't have to do any tweaking... and you can have your name instead of the stupid "Administrator" name.
The only problem with this is that I lose all of my user-settings and stuff, and I'm not sure how to share applications like Outlook Express (for my address book and saved e-mails) and things like that.
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