Windows Steadystate administrator lockdown

Hi guys! I'm a new user with Windows Steadystate software. I used it because we're all using the pc at home and some of the kids are installing unwanted softwares on the PC. Now that I've created a limited account for them I thought I would be at ease. When it asked me to restart the system which i did, I could no longer enter the system. I'm using a Windows XP home edition sp3. My problem is, it wont display the user accounts I've created and it includes the administrator account that I've created for me. I Even tried accessing it on safe mode to restrore the problem, but i still have the same problem. It wont display the accounts even when I'm on safe mode. If you know any backdoors to this program or if you can help me with this problem I would really appreciate it. Right now, I'm on an internet cafe to access the net.

 

Hi TonyT. Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I am the administrator of this PC and when I turn on the PC, all I see is click the username and login, but the thing is, it has no display of any user accounts that I can click on and log on to. same thing happens when im on safe mode. When I press "ctrl-alt-del" twice, a window would appear with textbox in it asking for username and password but when I enter my Administrator account and password, a message would appear and say something like "this account has been locked out from the system. Please contact the administrator." I tried logging in on the default administrator account created by windows which doesn't have a password, and still it would ask for a password. If I reformat the entire thing i would loose my data which I have no idea of how to back-up the files i can't access.

 

TonyT, this is what happened:
I installed MS steadystate 2.5 into my Windows XP home edition service pack 3, about 3days ago and locked only one profile account as there were three of them. 2 of which is an administrator account. When steadystate automatically updated itself and asked me to restart the system, without any hesitation I did it. When it finally booted up to the point where we choose an account to log on to, it did not displayed any of the 3 accounts that I could choose from, and so I've waited because I thought maybe my PC might have been slowing down. 2hours have passed and still there was no progress and it's still showing me the same display. I pressed ctrl-alt-del twice and a login window popped up with the default username as Owner, which I suspect that windows had created since I installed it into my PC. The default account that I have on my PC doesn't have any password and when I tried to just click ok to login, I still end up on the Login window.
After that I tried typing my own administrator user account which was in all caps and entered the password. A window(pop-up) shows up and tells me that my account has been blocked/locked by the system and that I should contact my Administrator.
Actually, I am the administrator. I'm the one who created these accounts and now all them, administrator or limited have been locked out.
I tried to restore what happened on safe mode but it would still ask for my username and password which is a part of the steadystate program.
How do I access my files? I haven't backed them up yet and it would be difficult for me to loose them if I format the system.
Any ideas as to how to remove these nuisance would be really appreciated.

 

I did and it works. Thanks TonyT I restored it to the time that I didn't installed the steadystate to my PC. Just one thing... would steadystate be still embeded on the registry? if so, how do i remove it? Thanks again for the help.

 

Hi TonyT, that's what i had in mind, but i can't seem to find steadystate on add/remove programs. Does this mean that it has been removed already?

 

Ok. Thanks a lot TonyT... I'll be searching those type of files then. By the way, can a registrybooster program help clean up any files in the registry or maybe even find the files correlated to windows steadystate?

 

Hi tony,
Sorry for the late reply. actually there are no traces of steadystate when i searched it on the registry. Thanks for all your help.

 

It's all thanks to you Tony