Ultimate Steal 2007 turned XP Home into Professional

Miss Jan · Dec 2, 2008

I am the sole owner of this computer and have never set an administrator password up.
I bought and installed XP Home, then purchased the "Ultimate Steal Office 2007 for Students" which was a pain, but eventually worked fine, but with my OS showing as XP Professional instead. I did have Windows One Care trial version antivirus and the Admin PW problem began right after I deleted that trial version and attempted to install McAfee, which is free with my cable service.
Whenever I attempt to download anything, including Windows Updates, and McAfee, I get an error message saying I don't have sufficient privileges to download anything and to sign on as administrator to do so.
My name is shown as administrator in user groups. I've been browsing help forever and was about to try to reformat the hard drive when I was informed by my favorite geek friend that I could not even do that without having the administrator password it is looking for.
McAfee told me to call Microsoft for help, but they said the license for my Professional Version is valid, but that support is not available for it.
She said if I could get my purchased copy of XP Home re-installed OVER the Professional version she could then help me.
I'm not sure how to accomplish this properly and so I don't know where to go from here. I'm an online student.:4-dontkno

mike2020learnin · Dec 2, 2008

Hello & welcome to TSF,

what you need to do is reclaim your rights

administrative right / user contols

when you power on your system start tapping the (F8)key & keep tapping it until a screen is revealed thet give you the options

safe mode
safe mode with comand prompt
safe mode with network

and many others

you will want to select (safe mode ) then enter

then a screen with all types of codes will scroll down

then you will get the welcom screen stating that windows is loading

then you will get the user log on screen

here you will have a list of all users and a hidden (administrator account) you will need to log onto this account

then you will get a window that is notifying you that you are loging into safe mode on this account / you will check the box & then select ( yes / okay / apply )

then the account will compleatly load

once loaded you will want to select start / then select (my computer ) by right clicking it / then you will want to right click on the icon for your harddrive icon/ local disk / from the drop down menu you will want to select (properties ) then another window will appear , you will want to select ( security)

it is here that you can set the administrative right for each account that you have created on your system

when you are done ajusting the settings you will need to select ( apply ) then select ( okay )

then close all windows and reboot

you will now have full access to all functions to your system

check to make sure these setting have been activated

Ultimate Steal 2007 turned XP Home into Professional

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