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Win XP – Show Admin Account On Log-In Screen
Written by admin on October 9, 2010 – 22:11Techs sometimes need access to the administrator account on a windows box.
The administrator account is the Windows account that controls all the settings on the computer. The person that holds the administrator privileges can make new user accounts, revoke existing accounts and much more. But if your PC has more than one Windows user account, the administrator account is cloaked. Here’s how to make it appear again on the XP welcome screen:
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Double-click the Administrator icon in the right pane. (If it is not there, right-click in the pane, choose New/DWORD Value, name it Administrator, and press Enter).
Type 1 in the ‘Value data’ box, and press Enter. From then on, you will see the administrator account on the XP welcome screen and you can access it to give it a password or change its settings.
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Win XP – How To Change Product Key
Written by admin on October 8, 2010 – 08:02- Open registry editor by typing Regedit at the Run.
- Navigate to the Registry key
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Next navigate to Software
- Under Software, navigate to
- Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents
- When you have navigated to the above mentioned key, on the right, lookout for ODBETimer. Right click on ODBETimer and select Modify.
- Here for the value, just change a minimum of one character by deleting or modifying the value. The change in value renders the existing product key invalid and also deactivates Windows.
- Next, Click on Start –> Run and enter the below mentioned command. Replace <windows_directory> with the Windows installation directory for your system. Usually for default installations this is C:\Windows
- <windows_directory>\system32\oobe\msoobe /a
- After this Windows will present to you an Activation screen. The one you would have also seen during the installation. Here, select the Option which says ” Yes. I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows” and click on the button marked Next.
Tags: Change, Key, Product, Windows XP
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Reg Files – Change IE Window Title To Default
Written by admin on October 6, 2010 – 07:52Change IE Window Title to default. Works in XP, Vista, Windows 7.
Change IE Window Title to default (705 bytes, 846 hits)
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