Hiya all,
We got a new pc for xmas and mum has made herself admin and no one else.
She won't let me be admin
Can you help me with these questions?
1) What is the default Administrator password?
2) Is there a way that I can get rid of the restrictions
3)or is there away to still be limited but be able to install programs.

I have treid talking to mum but she's being stuborn.
Thanks

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
1) What is the default Administrator password?

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
2) Is there a way that I can get rid of the restrictions

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
3)or is there away to still be limited but be able to install programs.

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
e got a new pc for xmas and mum has made herself admin and no one else.
She won't let me be admin
Can you help me with these questions?
1) What is the default Administrator password?
2) Is there a way that I can get rid of the restrictions
3)or is there away to still be limited but be able to install programs.

I have treid talking to mum but she's being stuborn.
Thanks

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Originally posted by Matty
default is nothing unless they change it on install
At the welcome screen press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice it will give you a Win2k login screen. in the username type Administrator and click ok. If she didn't change it you will be logged into the Admin Account and can give yourself admin privileges. I suggest also adding a password on that account so no one else can change it.

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Originally posted by Matty
default is nothing unless they change it on install
At the welcome screen press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice it will give you a Win2k login screen. in the username type Administrator and click ok. If she didn't change it you will be logged into the Admin Account and can give yourself admin privileges. I suggest also adding a password on that account so no one else can change it.

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What do you mean at setup?
When it says " Your Name"?
Is thee any registry files or something?

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Originally posted by Matty

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak

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Originally posted by Matty
default is nothing unless they change it on install
At the welcome screen press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice it will give you a Win2k login screen. in the username type Administrator and click ok. If she didn't change it you will be logged into the Admin Account and can give yourself admin privileges. I suggest also adding a password on that account so no one else can change it.

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What do you mean at setup?
When it says " Your Name"?
Is thee any registry files or something?

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When installing windows it says something in regards to setting the administrators password I doubt your mom did that. So at the welcome screen do what I posted and you should be fine.

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Nahh it doesnt work because it says this account has been restricted
Thanks for a good try though

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
Nahh it doesnt work because it says this account has been restricted
Thanks for a good try though

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boot in safe mode, XP Home won't let you on the default admin.

I have xp home.

Guess her password ? it may be something simple

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Originally posted by damm-o
Guess her password ? it may be something simple

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Ok are you just not reading?

On the welcome screen where it shows you the user accounts press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice this will change to a Windows 2000 style login. Type Administrator as the username and click OK. Chances are she hasn't changed the password for that account.

Why do you need to get on that PC anyway?

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Originally posted by Matty
Ok are you just not reading?

On the welcome screen where it shows you the user accounts press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice this will change to a Windows 2000 style login. Type Administrator as the username and click OK. Chances are she hasn't changed the password for that account.

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Originally posted by SikStyles
Why do you need to get on that PC anyway?

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Did you try to start in safemode and then try to login with the administrator?

cause on xp home you can only use the administrator account in safemode

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Originally posted by Ezra
Did you try to start in safemode and then try to login with the administrator?

cause on xp home you can only use the administrator account in safemode

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http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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I have tired Power User.
But in system tools there's no "Local Users and Groups"
Any help please?

EDIT: I am using XP Home.

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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Nice, but if I understood correctly, this program resets the password on a user, so his mother would know because she wont be able to sign in...

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easy, click start>run and enter in the run box w/o quotes "control userpasswords2"

i think you can figure the rest out

edit: i just checked and it doesnt really do anything if your on your type of account, but thats still a nifty tool

Has anyone got a prgrma which pretneds to be asking for a password to run a prgram but actually copis it?
Or somthing like that.
As I have an idea.
Just to type in the password when it comes up run as.

What Service Pack is installed? I used to know a bug in the scheduler that'd allow you unlimited access too (basically, it'd allow you to be logged in as "SYSTEM")

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Apparently it works on SP2 too (at least, here it does, on XP MCE)
I've attached the file.
What it does is add itself to the task-scheduler for the next minute, and then waits for it to be re-launched. This means that you should unpack it somewhere, instead of just running it from the zip
On startup it should say something like "Wait a minute please...", then after roughly a minute a new window will pop up "Google Search: Second World War" with an Internet Explorer icon (It was designed to be used at school, and because of this they couldn't see it in the taskbar )

Then it has several options:
Run TaskManager -> runs the taskmanager as SYSTEM, from there you can use all those tricks (like the userpasswords trick) to change password (trough File -> New Task (Run...) )
Restart Start-bar -> Kills your taskbar and re-launches it as SYSTEM. Now everything you do from Start will run as SYSTEM.
Kill All -> Don't touch this, this was only to fuck school pcs
Blast me! -> Ditto, unless you want your system to reboot instantly...
Unlock & Start MSN -> Start windows messenger, useful if it's locked at school
Run Registry Editor -> Run regedit as SYSTEM
Kill process -> Kill a certain process
Run Program -> Run something
Explore -> Start explorer
Dos prompt -> Start DOS-prompt.

Don't complain to me if you fucked something up or it doesn't work though

EDIT2:
On some systems task-scheduler is disabled, in that case it will still attempt and ask you to wait a minute, but it won't be launched

why don't u just get your own comp??

I dont mean to sound odd but there are quite a few similar threads with similar questions and similar answers. Only if you would have googled/ forum searched it would have made is so much quicker

Can someone help me find the xp guest account picture
or
Can you hide an account from  the users file so you can see it in conrol panel?

I have accidently hidden an account adn you can't access it from control panel>user accounts or anything.
Could someone show me how to do it please? As i dont know what I did


sorry for double posting I just would like help!

Try Start -> Run -> control userpasswords2

Tried that but it's not there either. But whats really wierd is that I can still access that account which is totally hidden.

If it's completely hidden, how can you access it :/?

Try Start -> Run -> lusrmgr.msc and see if it's in there...

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Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
Try Start -> Run -> lusrmgr.msc and see if it's in there...

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Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
If it's completely hidden, how can you access it :/?

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In that case even I am completely lost :/

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Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
If it's completely hidden, how can you access it :/?

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
Has anyone got a prgrma which pretneds to be asking for a password to run a prgram but actually copis it?
Or somthing like that.
As I have an idea.
Just to type in the password when it comes up run as.

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Any link for that app please?

This may sound stupid, but why not simply explain to you mom why you want access to the PC? After reading this thread (and others from before) I get the gut feeling that your mom has big reasons to restrict your access and that she has big reasons for not trusting you or whatever.

Doing all this stuff will not do you any good in the long run, as she will find out about it and she will not be happy. Then what? Grounded? No computer for a long time?

Talk to you mom about it all... Say you need a PC for homework and don't wanna mess up her computer (as you like to "experiment" also). If you're lucky (and behave ) you maybe can even get your own computer in the end which you could mess with. Afterall, it's the holiday season...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This may sound stupid, but why not simply explain to you mom why you want access to the PC? After reading this thread (and others from before) I get the gut feeling that your mom has big reasons to restrict your access and that she has big reasons for not trusting you or whatever.

Doing all this stuff will not do you any good in the long run, as she will find out about it and she will not be happy. Then what? Grounded? No computer for a long time?

Talk to you mom about it all... Say you need a PC for homework and don't wanna mess up her computer (as you like to "experiment" also). If you're lucky (and behave ) you maybe can even get your own computer in the end which you could mess with. Afterall, it's the holiday season...

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
e got a new pc for xmas and mum has made herself admin and no one else.
She won't let me be admin
Can you help me with these questions?
1) What is the default Administrator password?
2) Is there a way that I can get rid of the restrictions
3)or is there away to still be limited but be able to install programs.

I have treid talking to mum but she's being stuborn.
Thanks

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First of all you probably dont want her to find out if you hack her so dont do it but theres a way to be a power user on windows XP just like windows 2000

ok go to desktop -> my computer -> right click -> manage -> system tools -> local users and groups -> users -> double click on your user -> member of -> find power user and put it in there

make sure you are loged in as an admin on the computer

hope this helps

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Originally posted by ValSpy
I posted it in the second post

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
After reading this thread (and others from before) I get the gut feeling that your mom has big reasons to restrict your access and that she has big reasons for not trusting you or whatever.

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
Any link for that app please?

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This may sound stupid, but why not simply explain to you mom why you want access to the PC? After reading this thread (and others from before) I get the gut feeling that your mom has big reasons to restrict your access and that she has big reasons for not trusting you or whatever.

Doing all this stuff will not do you any good in the long run, as she will find out about it and she will not be happy. Then what? Grounded? No computer for a long time?

Talk to you mom about it all... Say you need a PC for homework and don't wanna mess up her computer (as you like to "experiment" also). If you're lucky (and behave ) you maybe can even get your own computer in the end which you could mess with. Afterall, it's the holiday season...

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I tried and she has agreed that i can have power user priviliges.
But the problem is that I can;t get power users up
Im using xp home

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
Why does she even know what Power User privliges are? Why not just ask her to make you an Administrator? There are two buttons, and those are the only buttons she needs to know about.

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
Why does she even know what Power User privliges are? Why not just ask her to make you an Administrator? There are two buttons, and those are the only buttons she needs to know about.

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I thought i was the only one who thought that your mom knowing what power users are is odd O.o
I think his mom is a big time user

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
Then she would know Power User is useless...

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My mum knows a lot about pc's she builds them and makes prgrams.
She's not to good on xp and I always get round her in the end Because she gets bored of checking on me.
Power users do not work on xp home as i have tried.
Power users you can't edit system thing (much) which she doesnt want me to do

Ok I have a question, There must be away to hide a user account from the control panel because how would they hide the Hidden Administrater?? So would you guys help me hide it from Control Panel>User accounts.
Thanks

I found this on google, hope it works. BTW, review the file for dodgy functionality...

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From http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_hide_users.htm
This VB Script will allow you to hide users on the Welcome screen.

To use: Download the xp_hide_users.vbs file and save it to your hard drive (you may want to right click and use Save Target As). Double-click the xp_hide_users.vbs file.  You will be prompted when the script is done.

If you hide an account, you can access it from the Welcome screen by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL twice.  You'll get the older style logon dialog.  Type in the username and password.

To unhide a user, and make them show up on the Welcome Screen, download this script.

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I have alreay hidden it I want to hide it from here...

I want an account hidden from there!!

Thanks for trying though!

EDIT: I've used that before and it works like a charm.

The solution to your problem is in psychology rather than technology.

Instead of hacking your mom or begging for administrator privileges "just because", find some software that 1)won't run otherwise and 2)your mother would be inclined to let you run.  She will probably give up when faced with that.

It will be most effective if the program in question is needed for school work, or money has already been spent on it (e.g. get her permission to buy a game).

Sorry for reviving such a old thread but just thought I'd let  you know i got past it so easily by safe mode
It's really wierd  though I've  hidden  my accounts so well that I can't access  then anyway apart from going onto the actual account Problem is it got converted to Guest account :?:
And there's no way of converting it back

do need to be an admin?

beacause i  cant logg in there just to the user that has an limited account

here to hide an account just follow these steps and walah..hirs the website...

http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/09/hide-use...om-windows-xp.html

i've tried this many times my mum doesn't even know that i have hidden a secret account. just use reg edit. just follow the instruction don't do anything else. good luck. hope this helps you solve problem.

Old old old thread.

Simple answer would be to use ophcrack.

Hey. I know the way.
I had this SAME EXACT PROBLEM. It sucks.
Okay
1. Turn off your computer (trust me)
2. Now, leave it off for like 10 seconds. Turn it on.
3. Now just keep pressing the F8 Key.
4. It will soon bring you to a screen with these random options. Click on the option that says safe mode. (It should already be on it)
5. Now, there will be another message about start-up style. There will probably be only one, and if there is more than one hit the one saying something about windows XP professional. (That is what you already have)
6. Voila! At the start-up screen, another account will be there... "Administrator" will now be with all the other accounts. (I know you don't want it to be like that, u dont want ur mom noticing.)
7. Now click on administrator, and it will have no needed password. (You may get a little popup box asking u sumthing, just say yes.)
8. Go to "Control Panel".
9. Hit "Edit accounts"
10. Hit "Change an account"
11. Now choose your account. (It should say it is a limited account)
12. And now, find "Change your account type." and switch it to Administrator. You are now an administrator, so apply the changes, and then turn off the computer. Turn it on normally like you always do, not on safe mode, and then hit your account.
You now have administrative abilities, and give ur mum a taste of her own medicine
make her limited. Lol she can find out how to be an administrator like u did.  LOL!

or if the admin account has a password
http://www.loginrecovery.com/