Vista - Administrator Account

Hi Sherekhan,

Welcome to Vista x64 Forums.

If you can have a friend make the boot DVD in Method Three in the tutorial below on their computer, you can use it to gain access to your computer again.

Reset User Account Password

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Yes it worked for us thanks Brinks a very happy family again

Your welcome Tina, and welcome to Vista x64 Forums.

Shawn

I tried the instructions listed in this thread, and I continue to get the "system 5 error." I right-clicked on the command prompt and ran it as an administrator. I then cut and pasted this command--net user administrator /active:yes--into the command shell thing. Still, I get oogatz!

Here is a print-screen of my command shell thing after attempting this hack. As you can see, it clearly says "Administrator" at the top of the window.

Can anyone clue me in as to what's going wrong?



Edit: I finally got this to work. I had to boot into safe-mode (press F8 as the computer boots.) No matter how many times I right-clicked on cmd and selected "run as administrator," this absolutely would NOT work in normal mode.

Hi Hoopskidoodle,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm glad to hear that you where able to get the buil-in Administrator account enabled.

Normally this error happens when one does not click Run as Administrator for the command prompt, but you clearly did. This link may help explain some of the security issues for the error message, though it's for mapped drive access it may be related.

Error message when you try to access a mapped drive that is mapped to a Windows XP-based computer from a Windows Vista-based computer: "System error 5 has occurred"

Shawn

These steps helped me take care of the issue on my friends nb. Thanx Brink

Your welcome Sidartluv. Glad to hear everything is sorted now.

Shawn

should i turn on UAC with the "Real" admin account? i have it off with the regular admin account.

Hi Torquenada, and welcome to Vista Forums.

UAC will have not affect on the built-in "real" Administrator account on or off. It would be best to have UAC turned on for the other accounts though for better security. If you do really do not like the UAC pop-ups, then you might consider just elevating the regular administrator accounts instead. This way UAC is not turned off completely. You can see how to in this tutorial if needed.

User Account Control (UAC) - Elevate Privilege Level

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I bought a Toshiba laptop with VistaHome premium and created a standard Admin account since I am the only user. But, I couldnot access some of the normal folders thru Windows Explorer, i.e. Cookies, Application Data, System Volume Info, etc.

I called Toshiba and over a period of almost 3 hours 3 different ITs gave me several different solutions (it's the firewall, its that you are not an administrator, it's that the os is corrupt and needs reinstalling--which I knew wasnt true so didnt do it--, that becoming a real administrator is an Advanced Technical task beyond any regular IT expertise and so I'd have to buy some Advanced Tech info from Microsoft to do it). Thanks to your website I was able to verify everything they said was untrue.

I followed the "Enable hidden built-in Admin Account" tutorial and it worked fine. I created a password and logged in and out and turned off the machine. Then I tried to access the above accounts and it still wont work.

Is it possible that I am not a "real" administrator but just a "standard" admin? How can I tell the difference? How can I access ALL of my computer? I hate these "for your own good" roadblocks.