Please can somebody help my machine seems to have gone into overdrive and wont allow me to be the admintrator.  It has set itself so that I am a user and I cannot get into my machines files to adjust the start up or any thing other than normal tasks.  In effect I cannot restore it back to an earlier time because I am not the administrator and dont have the permission.
How can I get it back can anybody help its XP home and it has been on this machine for 2 years happilyTo choose an ACCOUNT type in WINDOWS XP Home click on User ACCOUNTS in the Control Panel. Once you select a user you can click on the "Change My Account Type" button.

You will be able to choose between Administrator and Limited and can see a brief description of the abilities of each account type. You are required to have at least one Administrator account, so be sure to leave or create one- but save it for use when necessary and stick to using Limited accounts wherever possible.

The instructions given here should help you resolve your issue  msoft2004 copyright...Unfortunatly there is no accounts to choose from the administrator account is missing and it is only giving me access to a limited account.  In User Accounts it has 1.Create A Password  2.Change My Picture 3.Change my Net Passport and thats all.  As you can see it has totally locked me out of my own machine even trying to re-install windows I need an Administrators Account to do this but it wont even let me do this my hair is getting grey by the second.http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htmHi

Thanks for all your help but it SEEMED the easiest way to sort my problem was to buy some floppies and re-format the whole HARD disk and start again.

That has cured the problem

Once again thank you very much

Robert Doughty
Scottish Borders