About the Admin
Hello Flyvapnet,
the question about beeing Admin, could be maybe part of the problem with the cockies, since Firefox logg its cokies and stuff, in newer Versions and so they are'nt this easy accessable.
But as far as i remeber, beeing Admin or not beeing Admin, did become to a problem a bit later, with Windows Vista and above, when MS changed the User-Control and addend the UAC, in XP these problem should'nt have been as much present.
However, there are more as one Administartor-Account possinble.
The built-in Administrator account is hidden from Welcome Screen when a user account with Administrator privileges exists and enabled (if you are the only user, it is usually this way) and you are enabled as Administartor, but this Administartor is not the same as the build-in-Administartor!
In Windows XP Home Edition, you can login as built-in Administrator in Safe Mode only.
For XP Professional, press CTRL + ALT + DEL twice at the Welcome Screen and input your Administrator password in the classic logon window that appears.
You also could do one of the following to enable Admin:
-1. use the classic Windows application without the welcome screen:
To do this, go to "Start" in the "Control Panel" and select "User Accounts" from. Including "Change the way users log" you will find where to remove "Show Welcome Screen" check the box before. Then click on the button "Apply Options".
-2. use manual registry edit:
Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList
Use the File, Export option to backup the key
Create a new DWORD Value named Administrator
Double-click Administrator, and set 1 as its data
Exit the Registry Editor.
This may work with XP Professional only.
-3(a). Open the Control Panel:
Double-click the User Accounts icon.
Click the user account you wish to grant administrative rights to.
Click "Change the account type"
Select Computer administrator and then the Change Account type button.
-3(b). Alternative method:
From the Windows Desktop right-click on My Computer.
Click Manage, which should open the Computer Management Window as shown below.
Click the + next to Local Users and Groups or double-click it. Note: If you cannot access this section it's likely you do not have administrator rights to the computer.
Click Users and in the right pane you should see all user accounts setup on your computer.
Double-click the account you wish to view the rights of.
Click the Member Of tab.
If the user is a Member of "Administrators" that account already has administrative rights. If this group is not listed click the Add button.
Type "administrators" and then the Check Names button. If successfully found you should get your computer name followed by \administrators and have it underlined. For example, HOPE\Administrators.
Click Ok.
If you dont knew the Password for the Admin-Account, please have a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305/en
But once again, im not sure, if beeing the real Admin, will solve the cockie-miracle.
