Invisible "Andrea" Administrator Account in Vista

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andrebo85

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Hello,

My administrator account in Vista Home premium is called "Andrea".

I stupidly hid my "Andrea" administrator account by following this procedure:

http://triponic.com/guidestutorials/...ount-in-vista/

Now every time I log on into Windows VISTA i can't see my "Andrea" administrator account anymore. So I can only log in to a simple user account.

I haven't been able to fix this problem by editing the registry or by activating the super Administrator through the prompt of commands.

the problem is that VISTA user account control prevents me from doing the very actions which would solve the problem, that is, editing , in regedit, the string i created in order to hide the administrator Andrea account or managing to conclude succesfully any procedure on command .

I can't even restore the system because again I get the user account control and I can't do anything. no way I can fill in my user or password. there's no option available in the window of the user control..

please help me, I can't really get hold of my administrator Andrea account anymore!

thanks in advance

Andrea
 

My Computer

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See THIS link on how to Hide or Unhide accounts and particularly the Warning in pink just below the top. It advises you to unhide the Admin account in Safe Mode.

Was that THE Administrator account or your account that happened to have administrative level authority? I ask because the actual Administrator account is hidden by default and has to be unhidden from another admin-level account in order to show up.

There are some other useful links at the bottom of that tutorial.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Win 10 Pro x64 x 2
    Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware ALX x58
    CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme O/C to 4.02 GHz, 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus® P6T Deluxe V2 X58 LGA1366
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 Dual Core
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 HD LED backlit 23" W/S 2ms response time
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500gb SATA II
    1 x 1TB SATA II
    1 external eSATA LaCie 3TB
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Unique
    Cooling
    4 case fans @ CPU water cooling.
    Internet Speed
    1gb/s up and down
i did hide my administrator account, not the superadministrator one.
now even in safe mode I cannot fix anything because I don't have administrator privileges .. i.e. after hiding the only account with administrator privileges i can only log in with a normal user account :-(

i need to change the registry in order to fix the problem but i cannot do that, even in safe mode! what can I do?
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Win 10 Pro x64 x 2
    Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware ALX x58
    CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme O/C to 4.02 GHz, 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus® P6T Deluxe V2 X58 LGA1366
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 Dual Core
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 HD LED backlit 23" W/S 2ms response time
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500gb SATA II
    1 x 1TB SATA II
    1 external eSATA LaCie 3TB
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Unique
    Cooling
    4 case fans @ CPU water cooling.
    Internet Speed
    1gb/s up and down
Another question, do you have access to a limited user account and do you remember the password to your own account? If so any of those tutorials requiring an elevated command prompt should work OK in a limited user account. I had to actually create on on my Vista rig to check it.

Anything requiring admin access will give you a popup asking for the user name and password.

At least that way you could enable and unhide the Admin account or even your own account.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Win 10 Pro x64 x 2
    Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware ALX x58
    CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme O/C to 4.02 GHz, 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus® P6T Deluxe V2 X58 LGA1366
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 Dual Core
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 HD LED backlit 23" W/S 2ms response time
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500gb SATA II
    1 x 1TB SATA II
    1 external eSATA LaCie 3TB
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Unique
    Cooling
    4 case fans @ CPU water cooling.
    Internet Speed
    1gb/s up and down
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