Vista - Administrator Account

Hi Shawn,

I was able to do a system restore and it fixed it. Whew! I was just testing to see if I could rename the Administrator account and, well, I guess you can! You just can't name it back to Administrator without doing a system restore.

This forum has allowed me explore all sorts of neat stuff I would have never figured out on my own in Vista.

Thanks Again!

Musicmanrdu,

I'm glad to hear that you fixed your problem. The Built-in Administrator account is just to embedded to risk changing in my opinion. I would just use it when you cannot do something you wanted from a normal user account.

Have a great day,
Shawn

Hi first post, my m8 came round with his laptop with vista Home premium installed, now hes is a complete noob were pc are concerned, he deleted the admin account and now he is up creak without paddle, he needs to get back into ot for his uni papers so their in lies the prob how to get back into his account without reinstalling vista, and he just informed me that he has no discs for it either and deleted all the backup stuff on the second partion too, so this is what i have done so far,,,,, have followed your steps to make a real built in admin account, logged off logged on using the new admin acc now its asking me for a user name and password even tho i never gave it one so now i cant even get back my his acc, so how can i get rid of this screen and get back into vista without a password or name, tried safe mod still no joy, haven't got a PW reset disc unless you can point me the right direction on how to make one, coz this is bugging the hall out of me, i blame my m8 i wish he'd left it alone and not messed with it.

Hope you can help.

TIA

Hi robob1958,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

Since you did not give the Built-in Administrator account a password, you should be able to just leave it blank and press Enter to logon to that account.

If not, you can see if you can boot into Safe Mode, then create your m8 a new normal Administrator account again. Then see if you can logon to that account.

Safe Mode


User Account - Create


Shawn

ta for the reply shawn, but thing is i cant even get to the desktop it stays on the login screen, but i have managed to get into now, after reading the steps again i realised that the user name was administrator and the pw was set as yes and that allowed me to access vista, so i can now use it again, but still trying setup the parental rights for his wife and kid, no matter what i try it will not let me access the net even tho i have setup the rights as per the tut on here, i will figure it out if it kills me or i kill him for messing abt with it lol



many thanks

rob.

Rob,

I'm glad that you have access to the account again.

Do you have access to the net from the Administrator account?

I would set the Parental Controls to Allow all websites and content, then work down from there to see where you lose access.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn.
Nothing even from the admin account m8, i did set up an account for me for testing the net and allowed everything, but after rebooting and choosing my account it still say Parental rights disabled get admin to balh blah, tried again still nothing so i evn disabled it in the management services but it still give the same error so cant understand why if its disabled.

rob.

Rob,

I hate to say this, but it may be faster to reinstall than trying to track down what may have been changed.

Shawn

Shawn,

many thanks for the help m8, but was hoping to avoid that if poss also he hasn,t got the discs the pc came pre installed, so he would lose the activation for it. is there any way that a reinstall over what is already their poss if we can get the disc, would that not restore the OS to original state or is that not possible?

Rob.

Rob,

I Repair install may do the trick. It will repair the Vista installation and keep your user account files, settings, and programs. You can use any Vista installation DVD to do this as long as it is not a OEM recovery DVD.

Repair Install For Vista

Same goes with a reinstall if you must. You would just use the product key number that came with his computer.


Hope that will work for you,
Shawn