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Old 11-18-2007   #1 (permalink)
Hal


 
 

How Do You Enable Administrator in Home Basic

I've been able to do this fine in Ultimate, but need to stay with Home
Basic on my HP laptop because the laptop has figerprint reader and Ultimate
will not allow upgrade.

In Ultimate I can right click on My Computer and enable the administrator
account in users and groups. Vista Home Basic does not have this feature.

TIA

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 11-18-2007   #2 (permalink)
Jimmy Brush


 
 

Re: How Do You Enable Administrator in Home Basic

Hello,

- Click start
- Find command prompt
- Right-click command prompt, click run as administrator
- Type the following command and press enter:

net user administrator /active:yes


--
- JB
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User


"Hal" <hal2die4@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> I've been able to do this fine in Ultimate, but need to stay with Home
> Basic on my HP laptop because the laptop has figerprint reader and
> Ultimate
> will not allow upgrade.
>
> In Ultimate I can right click on My Computer and enable the administrator
> account in users and groups. Vista Home Basic does not have this feature.
>
> TIA
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 11-18-2007   #3 (permalink)
Ronnie Vernon MVP


 
 

Re: How Do You Enable Administrator in Home Basic

Hal

Go to Start and type cmd.exe In the results, right click cmd.exe and
select the Run As Administrator option.

In the command window, type the following command.

net user administrator /active:yes

Press Enter

This will enable the built-in administrator account. If this si the first
time you have used this account, you should create a password for the
account in Control Panel/User Accounts.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Hal" <hal2die4@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns99EC4EB84399EHal@xxxxxx
Quote:

> I've been able to do this fine in Ultimate, but need to stay with Home
> Basic on my HP laptop because the laptop has figerprint reader and
> Ultimate
> will not allow upgrade.
>
> In Ultimate I can right click on My Computer and enable the administrator
> account in users and groups. Vista Home Basic does not have this feature.
>
> TIA
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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