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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | missing Admin account Hi I need to access my administrator account but cannot find it anywhere. I tried booting into safe mode and only got my user name that has admin privileges. I looked in Administrative Tools Control Panel and no accounts are displayed there. I have some files that i cannot access or move because of this. and i cannot take ownership of help |
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Re: missing Admin account O.K. I am replying to my own post because i figured it out and this might help other users To turn on this 'super' administrator account, type cmd in the search box WAIT don't hit enter! cmd will appear at top. Rt click on it to 'run as administrator'. To enable this account, type this command & hit Enter: Net user administrator /active:yes To disable this account, type this command & hit Enter: Net user administrator /active:no If you decide need a password for the administrator's account that you are going to activate or if you are unable to activate it with a blank password: Net user administrator P@$$w0rd Net user administrator activate:yes Hit enter. You will get a message: The command completed successfully. |
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