How to change from a standard user to an administrator on Vista?

[Lucia096]

On my computer i have administrator opened but a forgotten password. i cant do anything on my computer with out that adminstrator password. My standard user account is open but i have no way at all to change it. Does anyone know a way to change the account with out the password to the adminstrator account?

[Eric B]

Check out the following threads:
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-adm...on/1200999.htm
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-adm...on/1205192.htm
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-adm...on/1065679.htm
Vista does not recognise administrator rights
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-adm...on/1197466.htm

[darshit]

However have you tried by enabling the hidden vista admin account?

First open a command prompt in admin mode by right click on command prompt shortcut in start menu and select "run as administrator"

Now type the following command:

    net user administrator /active:yes

You should see a message that the command completed successfully. Log out, and you’ll now see the Administrator account as a choice.

[Clemens]

Yes if you wan to change your administrator password you can change it by clicking on forget password or it might happen that you might have a backup of your password on USB drive then also you can change your password because in Vista you have a feature of taking backup of your password on USB drive.

[Lucia096]

Sad thing is, the hidden administrator account was already opened to begin with and there was no back up.

[darshit]

So access PC with that hidden account if its already open. Have you set the password on that hidden account also??

[Lucia096]

hahaha. There's a password on it too. Someone has been doing a lot of playing around on this computer. I can't do anything.