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| Guest | administrator account? hi, one thing i've always done with previous versions of Windows is run as a restricted user account & switch to the administrator account only when necessary. I've never seen the point of running with admin rights for daily use. So I just installed Vista Ultimate. It does as XP did, giving the first account created admin rights. I went in & removed that user from the Administrators group. But it appears there was no separate Administrator user created, so now I can log in only as my user, which has no rights to do anything... is there anything i can do to get admin rights back long enough fix things? Is it the case that Vista really doesn't create a separate Administrator account? thanks |
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| Guest | Re: administrator account? nm, i see they do create one but it has no password set & is disabled by default. Looks like reinstalling is the only option. |
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| Guest | Re: administrator account? Hello, The administrator account is there, however it is disabled by default and can only be used in an emergency (access via safe mode). This qualifies as an emergency. LOL. Reboot your computer into safe mode and then login with the Administrator account. Then, I would suggest adding your user account back to the administrators group. In Windows Vista, even though your user account is in the administrators group, programs run as if they were started by a standard user. Only programs that request permission ("Windows needs your permission to continue") will run with your admin privileges. So, administrator accounts in vista are really an admin-account-on-demand. "The" administrator account is different in that it acts just like the Windows XP administrator account - no prompts, everything runs with full privielges. You can still create another standard user account and run with it; however, I would suggest that you use the "new" style vista adminstrator accounts exclusively and completely forget about the default built-in administrator account (except in emergencies). -- - JB Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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