John H

I inadvertedly changed the "original"account to a standard user and now I'm
locked out without any control or access. How can I get back to the original
settings?

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> When Vista is installed the first user account you set up is automatically
> given administrator privileges. What happened to this account? Did you
> demote this account to a Standard User?
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> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
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> "Vista Advocate - Now" <[c_nulli@hotmail.com]> wrote in message
> news:uqKddejeHHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Using Vista Home Premium and want to give myself Administrator privileges.
> > When I choose to change my account type from Standard to Administrator,
> > the "change account" box is greyed out.
> >
> > I am the only user of the machine and the only other account set up (don't
> > know how) is an account called ASP.NET Machine Account.
> >
> > I want to control my system.
> >
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