From: Randall Parker 

To answer my own question:

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/admins.htm
Excerpt:

NOTE for Windows XP Home Edition users:  While you can configure Windows XP Home
Edition to show Administrator account in the Welcome Screen, you cannot login as
Administrator in Normal mode. Boot into Safe Mode to login as Administrator. Please
see the following Microsoft Knowledgebase article:

Error Message: Unable to Log You on Because of an Account Restriction:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290109 [Windows XP Home Edition]



OKAY, so how best I deal with this?

My goal: Get the XP Home box seeing the IE/OE files for mail to be able to migrate
them over to the new machine. But I need to get the files that is for the
NT machine's Administrator user and migrate them to (I'm guessing) an
account that is
NOT called Administrator on the XP Home machine.

How can you find out what account you are logged in as in XP Home if you never even
had to log in when it started up in the first place?


Randall Parker wrote:

> The Administrator account exists in XP Home but you can't bring it up?
>
> Is Owner a different account than Administrator?
>
> WinXP Home won't let an account called Administrator to be created. It
> says one already exists. But on the User Accounts page under the "or
> pick an account to change" area it only lists "Owner" and not
> "Administrator".
>
> I'm trying to get an XP Home machine to have the same Administrator
> account and password as an existing NT box so that the XP Home box will
> be able to get at disk shares on the NT box...

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