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July 13th 09, 05:03 AM
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Lost administrator rights in Vista business
I previously had set up Vista on my laptop so that both userids had administrator rights. That's changed (I don't know how because I certainly didn't do it - Windows auto update I suspect !) and the user group for both is now "debugger users". When I try to change it back to administrator I get "access denied". I've tried starting in safe mode but it won't let me enable the hidden administrator account. My laptop came only with a recovery DVD and I don't seem to be able to boot from that without wiping the disk. Clearly I don't want to do that ! How can I recover my admin privileges please ? -- davidmalloch 
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July 14th 09, 06:02 AM
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Lost administrator rights in Vista business
davidmalloch;1087987 Wrote: I previously had set up Vista on my laptop so that both userids had administrator rights. That's changed (I don't know how because I certainly didn't do it - Windows auto update I suspect !) and the user group for both is now "debugger users". When I try to change it back to administrator I get "access denied". I've tried starting in safe mode but it won't let me enable the hidden administrator account. My laptop came only with a recovery DVD and I don't seem to be able to boot from that without wiping the disk. Clearly I don't want to do that ! How can I recover my admin privileges please ? Try to enable buildin admin by using one of them methods: METHOD 1 'User Account Password - Change from Win RE' (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/20...ge-win-re.html) METHOD 2 http://www.vistax64.com/851487-post2.html http://www.vistax64.com/331839-post10.html METHOD 3 Tools for reseting password also have option to enable/disable accounts (for built-in admin also) for example 'Offline NT Password & Registry Editor' (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/) If you have been degraded to limited user you can also use this tool to add yourself to Administrators group -- Flavius
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July 14th 09, 06:02 AM
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Lost administrator rights in Vista business
davidmalloch;1087987 Wrote: I previously had set up Vista on my laptop so that both userids had administrator rights. That's changed (I don't know how because I certainly didn't do it - Windows auto update I suspect !) and the user group for both is now "debugger users". When I try to change it back to administrator I get "access denied". I've tried starting in safe mode but it won't let me enable the hidden administrator account. My laptop came only with a recovery DVD and I don't seem to be able to boot from that without wiping the disk. Clearly I don't want to do that ! How can I recover my admin privileges please ? Try to enable buildin admin by using one of them methods: METHOD 1 'User Account Password - Change from Win RE' (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/20...ge-win-re.html) METHOD 2 http://www.vistax64.com/851487-post2.html http://www.vistax64.com/331839-post10.html METHOD 3 Tools for reseting password also have option to enable/disable accounts (for built-in admin also) for example 'Offline NT Password & Registry Editor' (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/) If you have been degraded to limited user you can also use this tool to add yourself to Administrators group -- Flavius
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