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Locked out of Admin Account



 
 
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Old June 19th 08, 10:23 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
chuakp
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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!


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chuakp
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Old June 25th 08, 06:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Chandan Omkar[_2_]
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Default 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!


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chuakp

 




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