I hope someone can help me or I am going to be in big trouble. The other day I set up a user account on my PC for a colleague who needed limited access to my computer. I have done this many times and followed my usual way setting up.

When I came to reboot the new account was the only option I was given to log into and the administrator icon had gone. The account is still in the computer because I can see it. I cannot do anything with it because I only granted the new account limited access.

Please, please help.

Northendchamps

quickest thing you can do is go to control panel, User Accounts, "Change the way users log on or off", uncheck "Use the welcome screen", and click apply. Now you can use the box that you have to type your account name into, like windows 2000, and you can access the admin account that way. I'm sure there is a shortcut that you can press on the welcome screen that switches to the login box, but i've forgotten it.

If the above still doesn't show it press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the Welcome screen (sometimes twice in succession is necessary).