How can I become the administrator of my own computor?

I had a computer crash (viral infection) and had to do a clean install of Windows xp. Now that I'm high and running again, I discovered that I am just a user I can't manage my computer unless I am the administrator. What should I do to become administrator?

Hello

Please provide your version of XP (Home/Professional edition).

This should not really be possible after a clean install, did you do anything else since the installation?

What do you want to 'manage' and what message do you get?

Tricky

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