I havent heard of anything along these lines, but check your logs for what has been installed/changed recently so you can narrow your field of research.
It sounds like a simple case of profile corruption cause usually by an ungraceful shutdown - but the part that doesn't make immediate sense to me is why logging on with another account would correct the issue without any other efforts. -- ME2 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:14 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>wrote: > We have a workstation running Windows XP that controls a proprietary piece > of hardware. The machine is NOT attached to the active directory, although > it is on the network. The proprietary software that runs on it was set up > under the Administrator account and **has** to run under the Admin account > or it barfs as it requires a keylock and won’t see that keylock if you try > to run it as another user (it thinks you’re trying to violate the license > agreement.) > > > > Today, they rebooted the machine and the “Administrator” account was > nowhere to be seen and it wouldn’t let me log on as the administrator until > I logged in as someone else first. I have fixed that using TweakUI to change > the default logon credentials, but I’m wondering if anyone here knows of any > recent updates that would have caused the behavior to change? > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Thread-Count] > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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