Hello,
Background: I have recently turned on my previous video editing machine as I wish to access some old projects and export the videos in a different (higher quality) format from the edit which is on the machine. I have not used the machine since 2016 and it was built in 2008 using Windows XP professional SP2 32bit. It was a very powerful machine for its day but built using a RAID of 4 disks so not the most straightforward configuration. It was always a stand-alone machine, so not used on an office network. I was never particularly aware of User Accounts as it wasn't relevant - it just worked for me. I THINK I had to click on the user "Administrator" to log in (without a password) but it might have just loaded up in the profile which I used, as I used a number of different XP machines back then which were all a bit different.
Earlier this month, it took a while to get the system going and configure the setup to actually work but I have successfully managed to get into Windows. However when I first managed to get it going, it appeared to be "setting Windows up" which I didn't really think about, but now it is saying that I have 30 days to activate Windows and it appears to have created a new profile for me. The problem is, I can't seem to load a lot of the software which I need - I can see it within "c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator" but without being logged in as Administrator I can't seem to make it run. I have created a new User Profile and tried copying the relevant files (most of them - from the Administrator into this new profile) but it still is not happy. When I re-set it up it seems to have created a User Profile with the name "Administrator.WORLD-1CED3E37"
I think I need to log in by default as the "Administrator" but don't seem to have this option. Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give. I can post some screen shots if helpful.
Daniel
Background: I have recently turned on my previous video editing machine as I wish to access some old projects and export the videos in a different (higher quality) format from the edit which is on the machine. I have not used the machine since 2016 and it was built in 2008 using Windows XP professional SP2 32bit. It was a very powerful machine for its day but built using a RAID of 4 disks so not the most straightforward configuration. It was always a stand-alone machine, so not used on an office network. I was never particularly aware of User Accounts as it wasn't relevant - it just worked for me. I THINK I had to click on the user "Administrator" to log in (without a password) but it might have just loaded up in the profile which I used, as I used a number of different XP machines back then which were all a bit different.
Earlier this month, it took a while to get the system going and configure the setup to actually work but I have successfully managed to get into Windows. However when I first managed to get it going, it appeared to be "setting Windows up" which I didn't really think about, but now it is saying that I have 30 days to activate Windows and it appears to have created a new profile for me. The problem is, I can't seem to load a lot of the software which I need - I can see it within "c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator" but without being logged in as Administrator I can't seem to make it run. I have created a new User Profile and tried copying the relevant files (most of them - from the Administrator into this new profile) but it still is not happy. When I re-set it up it seems to have created a User Profile with the name "Administrator.WORLD-1CED3E37"
I think I need to log in by default as the "Administrator" but don't seem to have this option. Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give. I can post some screen shots if helpful.
Daniel
