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Vista Administration, Accounts and Passwords Queries, comments and issues relating to the administration of Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords) |
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Locked out of Admin Account
Hi, I stupidly changed my admin account (not the built-in one) into a standard user account. I have previously enabled the built-in administrator account so I thought that I will be able to login as administrator using that built-in account. But the welcome screen now does not show the built-in administrator account and I have no access to any admin account. I have tried using safe mode but no admin account showed up in the welcome screen. I cannot even run cmd in safemode as an administrator. A dialogue box will appear saying that "User Account Control - to continue, type admin password...". However, there is no prompt for me to type the admin password and the ok button has also been disabled. Please help! -- chuakp |
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Locked out of Admin Account
Right click 'Computer' and click on "manage'. Go to 'Local user and groups'
right click on users. your account name will be here or create a new account. It will ask for the administrator password. Enter the one which you had earlier. "chuakp" wrote: Hi, I stupidly changed my admin account (not the built-in one) into a standard user account. I have previously enabled the built-in administrator account so I thought that I will be able to login as administrator using that built-in account. But the welcome screen now does not show the built-in administrator account and I have no access to any admin account. I have tried using safe mode but no admin account showed up in the welcome screen. I cannot even run cmd in safemode as an administrator. A dialogue box will appear saying that "User Account Control - to continue, type admin password...". However, there is no prompt for me to type the admin password and the ok button has also been disabled. Please help! -- chuakp |