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1 25th August 21:40 rj External User Posts: 1	USER ACCOUNTS I just purchased a laptop with Windows XP Pro Installed. When I booted the machine, it only had a "Guest" Account available to log on. How can I create an adminstrator account if I only have Guest access??? Please help me.... I'm stuck!

2 25th August 21:41

charlie russel - mvp

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USER ACCOUNTS

You've stumbled into the 64bit newsgroup, probably not where you wanted to
be. You might want to post this question over on the
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general newsgroup, you'll have a better chance
there. But from your description, I suspect you'll need to either contact
the seller for the administrative password, or do a fresh install of
Windows.

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Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64

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