Cannot Log-in to Admin. Accounts

[thyde9337]

My Dimension 4500 (XP) has developed a serious fault and fails to log-in to accounts with Admin rights, ie password protected. There are two other accounts which do not need a password to log-in and these open correctly and I am able to use them to run some programs and for some limited use of the internet. But I cannot access my E-mails on that computer. Using Acronis, the C:drive is separately backed-up on an external hard drive which I can also interrogate from my Inspiron computer. I cannot use the LAN to contact the faulty computer from my other computers although the LAN operates satisfactorily between them. I am seriously concerned about the problem but it could become catastrophic if a fault occurred in the router since this is controlled from the Admin accounts on the Dimension 4500 which cannot be opened.



Please can anyone tell me how I can open the accounts with Admin rights?



I am aware that I could reformat the C: drive, re-load Windows XP etc but I would be grateful if someone could suggest another, less drastic, approach to solving this problem. I only have the original Windows XP2 disks to use for reformatting since SP3 was downloaded over the internet and I have not managed to prepare backup disks for the most up-to-date version of XP.



thyde337



My System



Dimension 4500, 2.53GHz processor, 1024Mb, XP, 160Gb hard disk, 80Gb hard disk, Roxio CD R/RW, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN, Dell Photo All-in-One printer. Iomega 500Gb hard disk, Toshiba 1Tb hard disk.

Dimension 4100, 1GHz processor, 256Mb SDRAM, ME, 20Gb hard disk, Adaptec CD R/DW, HP Deskjet 840C, Scanjet 3300c, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN.

Inspiron 8600, 1.4 Ghz processor, 512Mb SDRAM, XP, 40Gb hard disk, Philips CDRW/DVD disk drive, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN.

[BurrWalnut]

An account doesn’t have to be password-protected to have administrative rights!

To upgrade an account to administrator, go to Start > Run and type “control userpasswords2” (type the space but not the quotes) and press Enter. Click your name > Properties > Group Membership Tab > Other and make yourself an administrator.

[thyde9337]

I had received no assistance so far on this web site when I started to write this message but I can report some minor progress. I find that I can log in normally and surf the internet if I use one of the accounts which is not password protected but this account has no admin rights, I know that this is unwise and as soon as I have solved my log-in problem with booting into password protected accounts, I will designate passwords for all of them. With the password protected accounts with admin rights, one account will open and display the desktop but the computer stops and the screen goes black if I click on any of the icons. Another proceeds to open Windows and starts to display the Desktop, but immediately after the final icon is displayed, the program fails and I have to close down Windows.

Please can anyone suggest how I can solve this problem without reformatting the hard disk? I do have my C: drive backed up to a separate external hard disk which I can also access from another computer.so I the situation is not catastrophic but highly inconvenient. There are two full backups, one produced by Windows XP and the other by Acronis, (details of my system are given in my first posting).

thyde9337

P.S. To the Chippendale Society, thank you your for your advice. The approach you described I had already been told about by a member of the Dell Forums and I had tried it without success. I will try again but I am sure the approach is identical to one I had been advised about and tried unsuccessfully to use.

[greysts]

I am finding it hard to understand why you need all the different accounts and particularly difficult to grasp why you think it's so important for them all to have passwords.

You have three computers, yes? The first one appears to have four hard disks. Are they all internal or are some of them networked? The other 2 PCs appear to be standard.

You have a router which is connected to the Virgin Media cable modem, is that correct? Do all three machines connect to the router using ethernet cables?

If I'm right so far then any or all of those machines will have access to the router setup process.

How many user accounts are on each machine and what type of accounts are they?

[luckystar09]

me too, I need more detailed info
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