There's a button (one of the "F" buttons) that you can press during boot-up that will provide access to the Administrator log-in. My admin account is messed up and I need to delete it. This is an XP machine.1 person needs an answerI do too

Press F8 to get a boot menu that includes the Safe mode option. For details, please seeA Description of the Safe Mode Boot Options in Windows XP .Boulder Computer MavenMicrosoft Most Valuable Professional

Hi, As Steve Winograd has mentioned, you can press F8 to boot into advanced boot options. · Are you able to boot to the desktop normally? If you are able to boot into normal mode then, you can create a new User account with Administrators right, copy all the files to the new user account and delete the corrupted account. Follow the steps mentioned in the article given below.Step 1:How to create and configure user accounts in Windows XPhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/279783Step 2:How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in Windows XPhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151 Thank you and Regards. Thahaseena MMicrosoft Answers Support Engineer.