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what different loginname administrator?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by visee, 2006/11/16.

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    visee

    visee Inactive Thread Starter

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    Can you tell me login name
    (A) Administrator
    (B) administrator
    (C) Administrators
    (D) administrators


    what different, in Windows XP, (A) is corrent?

    Please!
     
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    mailman Lifetime Subscription

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    Hi, visee. Welcome to Windows BBS! :)

    I am not certain what you're asking. My computer (Windows XP Home SP2) has an "Administrator" account that I have available whenever I boot to Safe Mode.

    According to Belarc Advisor, "Administrator" is the only account from your choices you listed that has ever logged on to my computer. However, I have not used the "Administrator" account in several months. I usually use another account (with admin privileges) when I log on into Windows Normal Mode. Whenever I boot into Normal Mode, I do not have the option of using the "Administrator" account.

    If you download Belarc Advisor and run it, then it will install and automatically generate a detailed report for your computer (after several seconds) that will be displayed in your web browser. The logon information will be in the first column in the "Users" section of the Belarc Advisor report. It will list all accounts that have logged on to your computer and the "last logon" date for each account.

    I do not know if Windows XP will recognize "Administrator" as a different account than "administrator ". I have never experimented with that.
     
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    Bill Castner

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    Logon names and Group names are not case sensitive. (Passwords are). So:

    These two are identical logon names:
    (A) Administrator
    (B) administrator

    These two are identical Group names and invalid as a logon name:
    (C) Administrators
    (D) administrators
     
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    Bill Castner

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    According to the Bill Castner Advisor, the Administrator account is created automatically by XP in both Professional and Home versions. You cannot alter or delete the Administrator account, XP will silently and automatically rebuild the username.

    In XP Pro if you are at the Welcome screen and want to log on with the Administrator account, but it's not listed, press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to bring up the logon window, which then allows you to log on as Administrator.
    In XP Home an Administrator logon is only possible in Safe Mode. The closest equivalent Normal Mode logon account is Owner, an account created at installation and renamed with the username alias entered by the installer during the mini-prep portion of setup. In XP Professional an Administrator logon is possible in all modes.

    The Administrator account requires a registry edit to appear in Welcome Screen logons. (Although it can be made to appear in XP Home, the logon is not possible as discussed above).
    Logging on at the Welcome screen is not available on computers that are members of a network domain.

    If all four of these conditions are true, an Autologon is performed in both XP Pro and XP Home:
     

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