Vista - Change user to administrator

I just setup my new computer. There is only 1 account, which was setup originally as administrator. It was changed to user and now I would like to change it back to administrator. How do I do this? FYI...when I click on add or remove user accounts, it asks for an administrator password, since I'm no longer an administrator, the password space is blocked.

Only the administrator can give admin rights. I have no idea if this would work, but you could open the cmd prompt as administrator and enter

net user administrator /active:yes

This may make the administrator account show up. Your mileage may vary...

If the password space is blocked, can you enter the password? Do you have the password? If you don't lemur's suggestion won't work.

[QUOTE=Frostmourne;1136513]Okay Frost, ruin my great idea! LOL. I've seen people lock themselves out of their servers by removing admin rights to administrator. Not pretty (although there's always a workaround).

[QUOTE=lemur;1136515]True. If this was Ubuntu it would be easier using the live cd as root and the terminal, but with Vista its a different approach.

[QUOTE=Frostmourne;1136518]Hey, I have my Ubuntu workstation on my desk. I hate running sudo sh, and much preferred going superuser. I had Gentoo, but it broke too often. Not good for an OS. Ubuntu is very stable.

I'm using Fedora. Excellent OS in gnome on an old first-generation (i.e. slow) vista laptop.

net user administrator /active:yes ....already tried this, but it prompts me to enter an administrator password, which the password field is blocked, as there is only one account that was changed from administrator to user.

How did you change admin to user?

See if this helps...

Vista changed my status from administrator to guest