godsownman said:
Again you cannot do CTRL ALT DEL in those computer where the usernames come typed out like the blue welcome screen in XP .
There are always 2 Administrators.
All right ALBERT EINSTEIN, lemme explain it this way. I've had sysadmin experiences for over 6 years now, and I like to think I know what I am talking about.
So let me put it plain and simple.
When you get to the Welcome screen, with the users listed along with their icons, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to get to the standard Windows 2000 style login screen that gives you a box with a username and a password. This works even if you have selected "Use the Welcome Screen" in "Change the way users logon and logoff" in User Accounts. So, try it yourself once before correcting me with information that's not true.
Second, the process of adding users to a Windows XP computer works this way. The built account, carried over by the Windows 2000 codebase, for administering the computer is the name "Administrator" This is usually hidden by default and doesn't show up unless you boot into the safe mode or allow the show option via the registry edit.
You will also be prompted to set an Administrator password when you setup Windows XP on the computer. And chances are, that if you or a friend or someone else set it up, they would have most definitely supplied a password. Only OEM installs use a blank password for Administrator account.
When you get to the "Who will be using this computer" screen at the OOBE setup screen when you boot Windows XP for the first time, the name you enter there will be configured with Administrator privileges.
Thats what I meant when I said "You dont have to enter Safe Mode to try to login as "Administrator", just press Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to the Win2K style login screen, and then erase the username there and type administrator in and enter a password and hit Enter.
godsownman said:
I have personally done it and windows does warn us when we create our accoutns that this is possible .Practically that security issue is a hoodwink to fool people .You can chk it out .
As i said I have done it .
You can search for it in Windows XP Help also .
REALLY? I'd like to see it in action sometime. Do me a favor. Download Camtasia, and record the movie as to how you're creating the password reset disk on an account with Guest or User level privileges and then using it to reset the Administrator account password.
You can use the Password Reset Disk only to reset the password of the account through which it was created, not for ANY OTHER ACCOUNT.
You must be having a special version of Windows XP that allows you to go around resetting admin passwords with a simple password reset disk created on a guest account.
I've searched the entire Help and Support pages as well as the Microsoft KB. If you can point me to one instance where it says its possible to do this, I'll acknowledge you know what you're talking about.
A means to hoodwink people, you say? I say, you're totally mistaken and confused and need a crash course in basic Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 user accounts policies and restrictions. Why do you think they use Windows 2000/XP/2003 in companies then? Why dont they just throw the computers open to anybody and everybody and hand out Administrator level accounts like Gmail invites?