wilfried Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 I have one account that has "user" rights. It is password protected. I gave that account administrator rights for a few days. Yesterday I changed back the account to "user". Now I can't login to that account. If the account has "user" rights Windows tell me the password is wrong. If the account has "admin" rights, then no problem and I can login. I tried to remove the password, that did not work. Windows keep telling me "wrong password" What is going on? If I have to delete that account how do I save all its settings? txs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simms Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 If you couldn't login to Windows when you were a 'User', how'd you manage to get back into Windows and change it back to Administrator? (Or do you just have Admin enabled, making that two accounts) :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 Yea he has more than one admin account so he is changing it by another admin account. Stumps me though, I would say try deleting it. To save all the settings go to start > run and type the following (without the quotes): "%SYSTEMROOT%system32usmtmigwiz.exe" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfried Posted January 13, 2002 Author Share Posted January 13, 2002 Yes I do have two accounts, mine is admin and I have no problems with it. The other acct is my roomates account. He used to be a "users" now I have to set it to "admin" otherwise he just can't login. I thought of removing the acct but..... that would be too easy hehehe If I have too tho... and I use that wizard to save the settings... will HE be able to acess his files/folders that are on a NTSF partition w/ "make private" turned on. txs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki_rising Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 try to create another user and see if that one can log on. if it can not go to the admin tool and local security policy and then log on localy see if the users groups is allowed to log on. if it is not then add them. I would post a screen shot but it seems i can not attach a pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfried Posted January 13, 2002 Author Share Posted January 13, 2002 I tried that, and in fact ANY acct w/ "Users" right CAN NOT logon..... not just this one I was first talking about.... I checked the "Logon Localy" thing and Users is in it. What could be my problem? Any way to "repair" that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki_rising Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 in the same section. check the deny local logon. If deny is in place then it will always win over anything. do you know how to enable audits? try to enable them for log on sucess and failure and then try to log on as the user. then log on as admin and look at the event viewer under security and see what that says. It might help. Then turn loggin off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfried Posted January 13, 2002 Author Share Posted January 13, 2002 Well.... it is fixed.... but it's a really bad bug.... I found that article at microsoft: Link If the security log is full and a restricted user with no password attempts to log on from the Windows XP Welcome screen, the logon request is rejected without any error messages. I did get an error message and the account has a password set... but ... clearing the log fixed it.... Weird huh ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki_rising Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 leave it ms. did you have auditing on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfried Posted January 13, 2002 Author Share Posted January 13, 2002 yes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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