Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
From: "Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]"
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: admin account

In XP Home you must boot into Safe Mode to access the built-in Administrator
account

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http://www.dougknox.com
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Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"Tigger" wrote in message
news:EAFAE351-103B-4164-A457-A9F8BE899B25@microsoft.com...
> This question relates to Windows XP home edition. I am not able to log in
> to
> the computer with the "administrator" account. The error message is
> "unable
> to log you on because of an account restriction." I haven't use this
> account
> for a long time. I had put in a password for that account. I was able to
> log
> in with that password before. Now I get this error message. Any
> explanation
> why?