Locked out of Administrator

[brian1821]

Hello,

I need to make an administrative account. I am working on a computer where the only account I can access is a standard user account. (The other accounts on the computer are "Administrator" and "Guest", both are disabled) I've read that people solve this by logging on to the built-in administrator account.

I have tried the command prompt line "net user administrator /active:yes" so I can log on the built-in administrator account, but I get a "Access Denied" returned to me. People seem to solve this by right clicking Command Prompt and selecting "Run as Administrator" from the context menu.

Even though I am right clicking the Command Prompt exe and clicking "run as administrator", I do not think Command Prompt is actually running in administrator mode. I believe this is because UAC was disabled.

Is there anyway to turn UAC back on (while not on an account with administrator rights)?

I'm stuck in a loop where I seem to:
--> need an administrator account to--> turn on UAC -->to allow me to run Command Prompt as an administrator -->to allow me to activate the built-in administrator account--> to allow me to create a normal administrator account.

Thanks for any help!

[brian1821]

P.S.

I forgot to mention, I've also tried to boot in safe mode (Some mentioned this will let you access the built-in administrator account) but it did not see anyway to get to the administrator account.

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate.

Thanks

There are some things you can try here:

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/content.aspx?id=7

If there are no administrator accounts other than the "Administrator"
account the first method, booting to safe mode, should work.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/


"brian1821" <brian1821.3sjw3c@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello,
>
> I need to make an administrative account. I am working on a computer
> where the only account I can access is a standard user account. (The
> other accounts on the computer are "Administrator" and "Guest", both are
> disabled) I've read that people solve this by logging on to the
> built-in administrator account.
>
> I have tried the command prompt line "net user administrator
> /active:yes" so I can log on the built-in administrator account, but I
> get a "Access Denied" returned to me. People seem to solve this by
> right clicking Command Prompt and selecting "Run as Administrator" from
> the context menu.
>
> Even though I am right clicking the Command Prompt exe and clicking
> "run as administrator", I do not think Command Prompt is actually
> running in administrator mode. I believe this is because UAC was
> disabled.
>
> Is there anyway to turn UAC back on (while not on an account with
> administrator rights)?
>
> I'm stuck in a loop where I seem to:
> --> need an administrator account to--> turn on UAC -->to allow me to
> run Command Prompt as an administrator -->to allow me to activate the
> built-in administrator account--> to allow me to create a normal
> administrator account.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
>
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