If you don't have an administrator account try booting in safe mode and the inbuilt Administrator account may be available. It won't be available if Windows thinks you already have an admin account. You cannot do administrative things without an admin account. This is what military level security means. Any administrator on any computer can access your files. You can move your hard drive to a new machine, take ownership of the files then give yourself permission to access them. If you are able to reinstall Windows without deleting your files you can follow the same procedure. Type ownership in Help for the procedure. -- .. -- "Hacksaw123" wrote in message news:ef81ad0d-6a2f-4a75-a29c-aac3c9471ecf... >I changed the password for the Administrator account..., now the >Administrator account seems to missing. It does not appear on the >"login/Welcome" screen, or in the User Accounts. > > Using the "Guest" account, if I open User Accounts, and then select > "change a password," the Administrator account appears, but will not allow > me to actually change the password. I'm sure that is because I am only > able to use the "Guest account," and I do not have access to change any > password for any other account. > > I suspect it still exists, but I don't know how to get the account to > appear after the Welcome screen. Any ideas? > > As for my background, I was once a systems analyst/developer (using > Oracle). I'm no expert with Microsoft Windows. I'm not sure I should even > be posting anything here. I apologize in advance, if that is the case. > > jeff >

I changed the password for the Administrator account..., now the Administrator account seems to missing. It does not appear on the "login/Welcome" screen, or in the User Accounts. Using the "Guest" account, if I open User Accounts, and then select "change a password," the Administrator account appears, but will not allow me to actually change the password. I'm sure that is because I am only able to use the "Guest account," and I do not have access to change any password for any other account. I suspect it still exists, but I don't know how to get the account to appear after the Welcome screen. Any ideas? As for my background, I was once a systems analyst/developer (using Oracle). I'm no expert with Microsoft Windows. I'm not sure I should even be posting anything here. I apologize in advance, if that is the case. jeff

If you don't have an administrator account try booting in safe mode and the inbuilt Administrator account may be available. It won't be available if Windows thinks you already have an admin account. You cannot do administrative things without an admin account. This is what military level security means. Any administrator on any computer can access your files. You can move your hard drive to a new machine, take ownership of the files then give yourself permission to access them. If you are able to reinstall Windows without deleting your files you can follow the same procedure. Type ownership in Help for the procedure. -- .. -- "Hacksaw123" wrote in message news:ef81ad0d-6a2f-4a75-a29c-aac3c9471ecf... >I changed the password for the Administrator account..., now the >Administrator account seems to missing. It does not appear on the >"login/Welcome" screen, or in the User Accounts. > > Using the "Guest" account, if I open User Accounts, and then select > "change a password," the Administrator account appears, but will not allow > me to actually change the password. I'm sure that is because I am only > able to use the "Guest account," and I do not have access to change any > password for any other account. > > I suspect it still exists, but I don't know how to get the account to > appear after the Welcome screen. Any ideas? > > As for my background, I was once a systems analyst/developer (using > Oracle). I'm no expert with Microsoft Windows. I'm not sure I should even > be posting anything here. I apologize in advance, if that is the case. > > jeff >