Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Name:
Administrator
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
display on userlist
Reboot and you will see Administrator as one of you logon choices. If you logon to a normal user account and want to switch to the builtin account:
- Click Start
- Click Logoff icon
- Click Switch Users icon
- Select Administrator , another account, or the the one you are logged onto.
Enabling Switch Users is incompatible with VMWare workstation. VMWare is a niffty tool for support people. An NT or Linux version is available. You can use it to run virtual machines. For example, my primary operating system is Windows XP Pro. I use VMWare to run Windows NT, Window 2000, Windows XP Home, Mandrake Linux, and XP Pro in virtual machines running in windows. I highly recommend it if you need to run multiple operating systems or multiple versions of the same OS.