Vista - How to Enable System Administrator

Hi,

A few days ago, my Panda Antivirus had expired and thus exposed to viruse,
adware, trojan etc etc...After i had removed it, my laptop goes haywire.
Later i installed the Kaspersky internet security. After scanning and doing
all neccessary things, i've tried to change my screen saver. However, a pop
up window says 'Your System Administrator has disabled launching of the
Display Settings Control Panel'. I'm the only Administrator of my laptop. I
cannot even edit my Registry as well. Please tell me what to do. Thank you

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Regards,

Terence

You must remotly edit registry

Insert your DVD Vista and reboot computer,see Startup Repair but you go to Command Prompt (not to repair computer)
In Command Prompt type

regedit.exe

and then load SAM hive from C:\Windows\System32\config

(see yourself MS article how edit registry remotly Load a hive into the registry: Core Servicesd)
for example you will load SAM hive under HKEY_LOCALE_MACHINE as a REM_SAM

Now go to HKLM\REM_SAM\SAM\Domains\Accounts\Users\Names\<user name> and read what is in the Type column by Default term



as you can see the value in Type column is the sam as a user's identyfication in
HKLM\REM_SAM\SAM\Domains\Accounts\Users then go to the user's identyfication key and click to F value and will see:


if will be user account with administrative previlliges (i.e your account)
14-account is turned on
15 -account is turned off
other values - some errors

if will be user account with limited previlliges or built -in Administrator account then:


10-account is turned on
11-account is turned off
other values - some errors
after all unload hive and run computer normally

Hi Flavius,

Thank you for your help. The laptop which i purchase, doesn't comes with a
DVD Vista. It's all preloaded. Any solutions to this? Thank You


"Flavius" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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Terence who made your computer HP, Dell etc

Hello Terence,

This tutorial will help show you how to enable the "Display Settings control panel" again so that you can change them.

Display Settings - Enable or Disable Changing

Hope this helps,
Shawn

In case you did not receive the cd with the system. Then go in the advanced boot options menu & then press enter on Repair Your Computer. It would ask you to login. Once you have done that. You can run startup repair.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account
First you'll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing "Run as administrator" (or use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut from the search box)

Now type the following command:
net user administrator /active:yes

You should see a message that the command completed successfully. Log out, and you'll now see the Administrator account as a choice.

You'll note that there's no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password.

I have similar problem. mine can't even run command prompt.Im pretty sure im the admin too and i can't reach out to my regedit.exe or some other important exe.therfore i cant change anything =(

"Terence Low" wrote:

1-net user administrator /active:yes and restart the system.
2-other option is boot the system from erd cd.
3 other option is right click on my computer go to manage select local user
go to administrator right click on it go to properties enable the account.