I installed a new hard drive in my laptop and formated and installed all the updates and reinstalled all my programs but foolishly left no password protection. I was tired and I wasn’t planning on using my laptop and didn’t until one month later. I found I had a new user called asp.net machine A. When I went to safe mode to access user accounts to place password protection for Administrator, I found that the control panel would no longer display and also noticed in my start up services that there was remote registry running. How can I get the control panel to display so I can access user accounts to password protect the Administrator account in safe mode? Any other suggestions are welcome. I am running XP Professional and everything else seems fine but I feel insecure without being able to password protect the Administrator account.
