XP may lock a person out if they have ONE account and the PROFILE is corrupted. These people usually end up at a shop where a tech will reinstall the OS (and wipe out the user's files.)
This is just ONE scenario that you cna avoid by having a spare administrator account.
It's your machine and your choice on the matter.
Bob
I am the only user on my XP Home Edition machine. I have noticed several of you folks saying to create a user account as well as the automatic administrator
account. Why? Thanks

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