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There is a difference between the “Administrator” account, which does not show up under the “User Accounts” control panel, and users with administrative privileges. It is standard behavior that the user logs on with a separate account that generally ends up with a name based on the user’s name. This account has administrative privileges by default. The “Administrator” account is usually not used. It is possible that the password to the “Administrator” account has been changed. This does not have any relation to the account your friend usually uses, which looks to have had its privileges downgraded.
The steps given are for XP. You may have to expand the System Tools entry. Then expand the “Local Users and Groups” entry. The Administrators group will show all admin users. In a default install with one user, there will be an entry for “Administrator” and an entry with the user name entered during setup. Note that it is possible to be an administrative user but have certain privileges restricted through Group Policy.
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I’m sorry that this isn’t making sense to us, Cleophus. We are totally lost on technical stuff unless it is spelled out step-by step.
When she clicks under System Properties, under Computer Name, it says Erins, which is her name. Also when she checks the Computer Administrator, it also has the name she chose. She also thinks it very unlikely that her friend actually changed her password.
However in the past, when she went to Task Mgr, she would see files with her name mispelled as “eran”. Now, it may seem silly to obsess about this but when she sees that her computer was somehow tampered with the disrespectful mispelling of her name, it really bothers her, especially as she is helpless to fix it.
We have tried the Windows XP help/support center and it gives us these instructions-
To set the DisableTaskMgr registry entry value to 0 for all users, follow these steps:1. Log off from the computer.
2. Log on to the computer by using a user account that has administrative permissions.
3. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
4. In the left pane, click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
5. In the right pane, double-click DisableTaskMgr.
6. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
7. On the File menu, click Exit.
8. Restart the computer.
However, on both her computer & mine, in the right pane, there is no DisableTaskMgr option.
This is pretty perplexing for both of us. Does anyone know another way around this? I will send her the XP registry patch to see if that helps. Thanks, drachillix.