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| | Made both users standard in error I bought a new computer with Vista installed. I tried to set up 2 accounts, one for me and one for my son. I set him up as a standard user and I THOUGHT I set myself up as the administrator. I was able to set the parental controls and then I restarted the computer. Now for some reason it shows BOTH of us being standard users and I am unable to do anything including using the "Use as Administrator" from the control prompt feature because I don't have an administration password. I can't reinstall anything because I am considered a standard user and so is he. I need to bypass this somehow. I have been trying to get into this for over 3 hours and I am frustrated. I need some help if you might be able to help me. PLEASE!!! I am not even sure how to contact Microsoft to get this fixed. |
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| | Re: Made both users standard in error On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:53:01 -0800, Celeste <et> wrote: Quote: >I bought a new computer with Vista installed. I tried to set up 2 accounts, >one for me and one for my son. I set him up as a standard user and I THOUGHT >I set myself up as the administrator. I was able to set the parental >controls and then I restarted the computer. Now for some reason it shows >BOTH of us being standard users and I am unable to do anything including >using the "Use as Administrator" from the control prompt feature because I >don't have an administration password. I can't reinstall anything because I >am considered a standard user and so is he. I need to bypass this somehow. >I have been trying to get into this for over 3 hours and I am frustrated. I >need some help if you might be able to help me. PLEASE!!! I am not even >sure how to contact Microsoft to get this fixed. the F8 key. Choose to enter Safe Mode (top of the list) Logon with the Administrator account (it doesn't initially have a password) - the one with no name. Make the changes you want to make. Note: your son might know about that Admin account. He can also use it. You need to set it up with a password. |
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