Subj : Re: msconfig To : All From : gfretwell@aol.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!news.unit0.net!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.hi ghwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!borde r2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buff er1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:17:27 -0600 From: gfretwell@aol.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: msconfig Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:17:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-THG3dp7TFf/l4VQkMpkJSPiGQla00k/05IvoApApxhYS8QYi26pOaS7dpnhcMVbkuTsMQFHKBj0 Dv4o!hZgpzVJaVVnjTIrVJB2Odc5EiUqDkuiRjr9QsSj6xzZZou0WLJvkFwdIHXES0tNEE7tLaw0= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1927 X-Received-Body-CRC: 912746836 X-Received-Bytes: 2200 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134531 On 14 Nov 2017 16:45:01 GMT, KenK wrote: >I tried to remone a startup program with msconfig and XP told me I had to >be administrator to do so. The system was a gift so I don't know which >choice was administrator. One is guest, the other two are the previous >owner's and his wife. I am using the previous owner choice when the system >starts. > >Now what? His wife? Doubtful. Can I make myself administrator? I need to >remove that app and many others. > >TIA I get that message all the time and I am the administrator. It goes ahead and does the change after I ignore the message. You can go look at "users" and see what your authority is. There are also crack disks out there that will lever up all of the passwords. I use them when I get a "gift" without any idea of what the administrator PW is. I may have a disk image here somewhere if you can't find one. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .