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whitestar109

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I just built a system and all went well, not one problem. The system ran for about 4 days when all of a sudden 2 things happened that I can not understand. the first thing is I now get a administrator log on after the bios kicks in, I never set up this feature it just occured on its own. There is no actual administrator as my wife and kid use this computer, how can I disable this feature? The next thing is the most troubling to me, I purchased a 10,000 rpm hard drive as a boot drive, it is dedicated to just booting the computer as I wanted the fastest boot time I could get. This worked great, super fast boot, until one day I noticed there is a black screen that stays on for approximately a minute before the desktop appears. After the Windows XP logo appears the screen will go black for a long time, then the monitor will make a clicking sound and then the desktop appears, everything works fine after that, but now my boot time has an extra 60 seconds added to it, which defeats the fast boot drive. I removed the video card driver in case this was the problem, but nothing changed. I have looked through all the settings that I could find, but nothing came up.
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Please see the wrtie up from windows Help and support below

Why you should not run your computer as an administrator.
Running Windows 2000 or Windows XP as an administrator makes the system vulnerable to Trojan horses and other security risks. The simple act of visiting an Internet site can be extremely damaging to the system. An unfamiliar Internet site may have Trojan horse code that can be downloaded to the system and executed. If you are logged on with administrator privileges, a Trojan horse could do things like reformat your hard drive, delete all your files, create a new user account with administrative access, and so on.

Click start, Click help and support and type "administrator" into the search and look at the topics covered this should help you.
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