don't know what to do with "sys error 5"

gadianton10 · Nov 10, 2012

I'm trying to get full admin rights to my Vista PC but when I follow the instructions to go to the cmd prompt and type "net user administrator /active:yes" I get a system error 5 - access denied error. So my question is - What the heck is a system error 5 and how do I get rid of it? I suppose once I do, getting full admin rights will be pretty straight forward. Maybe? :confused:

tom982 · Nov 10, 2012

Hello gadianton10,

Why do you want access to the hidden administrator account? It's highly inadvisable to enable it and work with it.

Tom

Setro2 · Nov 10, 2012

gadianton10 said:
I'm trying to get full admin rights to my Vista PC but when I follow the instructions to go to the cmd prompt and type "net user administrator /active:yes" I get a system error 5 - access denied error. So my question is - What the heck is a system error 5 and how do I get rid of it? I suppose once I do, getting full admin rights will be pretty straight forward. Maybe?

Are you the actual administrator of the computer or are you trying to become administrator on guest? If so, I do not think you can. Do you already have full administration? If so, it may give you an error, because it makes no sense to become admin twice. Hope I helped.

tom982 · Nov 10, 2012

Setro2 said:
gadianton10 said:

I'm trying to get full admin rights to my Vista PC but when I follow the instructions to go to the cmd prompt and type "net user administrator /active:yes" I get a system error 5 - access denied error. So my question is - What the heck is a system error 5 and how do I get rid of it? I suppose once I do, getting full admin rights will be pretty straight forward. Maybe?

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Are you the actual administrator of the computer or are you trying to become administrator on guest? If so, I do not think you can. Do you already have full administration? If so, it may give you an error, because it makes no sense to become admin twice. Hope I helped.

An account with administrator rights is different to the hidden admin account

gadianton10 · Nov 11, 2012

I'm the only user of the computer and i thought I had admin rights but when I go to delete certain programs I get the message that I need to have admin rights in order to do so.

Madhur B · Nov 11, 2012

Hi gadianton10,

When uninstalling certain programs you would have to right click on the program or file, click Run as Administrator, uninstall the program and check if it works.

If issue persists, please follow the steps in the below mentioned link: "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied." error message may appear

Also check if this link helps for this issue: Can't uninstall ANY programs. Error 5: Access is denied - Windows 7 Forums

Please post the results.

tom982 · Nov 11, 2012

Command Prompt

Click on the Start

button and in the search box, type Command Prompt
When you see Command Prompt on the list, right-click on it and select Run as administrator
When command prompt opens, copy and paste the following commands into it, press enter after each

net users {Your user name} > %SYSTEMDRIVE%\tom982.txt

For example, the command for me would be net users Tom > %SYSTEMDRIVE%\tom982.txt
This will create a text file called tom982.txt in the root folder of your main drive (e.g. C:\tom982.txt). Please copy and paste the contents of this into your next post.

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