A little Administrator Help

[18Jack12]

Hi, As you may fully be aware I am a newbie here. My name is Jack, I am running on Vista Home Premium 6.0.6000 Build. I am not as technical as id like to think with computers!

The issue I have is with the Administrator level of access, and also the Hidden Built in Admin account. Both of which I seem to have lost!

I have trawled through various help topics and pages on many different sites and subsequently tried a few solutions, and the outcome.. Well I'm posting this thread so yeah I'm struggling.

So.. I have no active user account with administrative rights, therefore i can not run cmd.exe As administrator. (It asks for an administrator password, with no input text field for a password)

Also if i boot into Safe Mode, it boots only into my user account, there is no option to log in as Administrator.

I have noticed however, and im not sure if this is relevant or not.. If I go to (Computer/Local Disk/Users) There is a Folder there called Administrator, Also a folder called Mcx1, The Latter is also un-accessible as a Standard user. So i guess this has admin rights?

I am not too sure what else to try now to be honest. I do not have a Boot Disk or Recovery Disk of any kind, as this was one of those fairly cheap laptops that comes with the installation of windows already there.

Any further help will be much appreciated..
If i have not provided enough info please let me know and ill do my best to give more !
Hopefully all is not lost yet !

Cheers. Jack

 

[usasma]

The ONLY thing we're going to do in the Administrator account is to make another account on your system with Administrator privileges. Then we'll leave this account alone until the next time that you need it (which should never happen because of the new account we'll make).

To do this, boot into Safe Mode (tap F8 repeatedly after the Samsung splash screen shows) - which should access the Administrator account (Info here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html ). Go immediately to Control Panel...User Accounts and create a new account with Administrator privileges. Make sure that you use a strong password to protect it!!!

Then, reboot the computer and log into the new account and make sure that it works. Then reboot into your normal account and see if it prompts you for elevation credentials when trying to do an administrative task. When it does prompt you - put in the new account's credentials and see if it works.

Please let us know how this works out for you.

 

[18Jack12]

Hi, And thank you for your speedy reply!

I have however already attempted this method, as mentioned in my initial post, When i boot into safe mode, there is no option to log on as an administrator on the login screen. It boots up and logs directly into my user. If i then Log back out, all that is there is my user to log back in no administrator.

its got to be some kind stupid mistake that i no doubt have somehow made at some point, that has not come to light until now.

 

[usasma]

Sorry, but I missed that in your original post (I have eye problems).
When it asks for an Adminstrator account with no password, what happens if you click on it anyway?

If that doesn't work, then I'd have to suggest trying a repair install of Vista according to these directions: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html

 

[18Jack12]

When it asks with no where for the password the continue button is disabled so the only option is to hit cancel!

Fair enough, No worries i thought id have to resort to getting a vista disk from somewhere!

Just thought it was worth a try to see if there was any other option, as I dont have any disk(s) related to vista at all.

I know there is a way to reactive the administrator account using the repair option (IF) you have a vista disk, but it involves modifying the registry, which obviously if you mess that up would lead to more issues!

All i wanted to do was update my Iphone !

Oh well, thanks for your time and help !!

 

[americancritic]

Hello

If you have a friend with a computer you can make a set of recovery disk's for your system also you would be able to make a startup disk. I will attach a couple of tutorials for you...

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/194765-system-recovery-options.html

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html

I hope this will get you on the right track. If there is something that you don't understand please post back and someone with the forum will help you. LOL