Comments on: How to enable Administrator account in Vista

By: Craig Brochhausen

Craig Brochhausen — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:31:30 +0000

I was on my administrator account and got a virus or trojan. It blocked me from doing anything on the administrator account. I went to my guest account and it was not affected. I, then, made the guest account the administrator and deleted my main administrator account. The trojan was gone and the computer works fine, but I am logged on as a guest and the computer won’t let me do things as a guest. I tried to change my account and to make a new account but it won’t let me.

How do change the account type or create a new account? I also tried a restore point but was denied. It said to check event log 0×81000202.

By: Anonyme

Anonyme — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:40:41 +0000

You need administrator account to activate administrator

By: Patrick Greer

Patrick Greer — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:06:42 +0000

I when I bring up computer management, I am not able to progress to this step. I do not have the Local User and groups as an option Step 2: In the left hand menu, expand Local User and Groups and then click on Users.

By: nate d flow

nate d flow — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:59:37 +0000

Local User and Groups does no show up any help with that ?

By: david cunningham

david cunningham — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:23:32 +0000

Hi getting the same syntax message as brandy did see post October 23 2009 8.15 cant find any reply to brandy question is there one anywhere ?? please dc

By: Secure the Windows 7 Administrator Account

Secure the Windows 7 Administrator Account — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:56:34 +0000

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By: Brandon Bachman

Brandon Bachman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:26:31 +0000

Just do the command prompt thing.

net user administrator /active:yes

I’m on Home Premium myself. This guide assumes you have something like Vista Ultimate.

By: Tim Kile

Tim Kile — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:38:43 +0000

When I go to manage, there is no listing for local users and groups, so I can’t get to The Adminintrator account to change anything. I tried control panel and clicked on User groups, but it won’t let me change anything either. This is Bullshit, as I need to update some software, but I can’t unless I am logged on as Administrator. Any ideas?

By: Gsorsnoi

Gsorsnoi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:55:40 +0000

Hi there! I have a similar problem as described up here. Yet one difference:

After running as administrator (via right clicking or using the CNTRL+SHIFT+ENTER option) I still get a pop up telling me I don’t have access. The problem I have: I can only click CANCEL. There is no OK option there.

What to do? This is my daughters laptop I’m trying to fix. She can now only access her account between 0:00 and 04:00 am due to her attempts to activate time limit. And so do I, since my wife deleted the administrator account on this pc somehow.

Obviously I get the ‘access denied’ message on cmd on activating net user administrator since I cannot run as administrator.

Please help.

By: Kobis

Kobis — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:27:23 +0000

What are the steps to enable the Administrator account in Windows 7? Thanks.

By: A. Nanny Moose

A. Nanny Moose — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:33:52 +0000

Another method of enabling the Administrator account and/or resetting passwords is to use the UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD). Google is your friend.

By: epona3

epona3 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:01:52 +0000

Hello,

I apparently forgot my administrator password as well. I didn’t set a hint question because my son would figure out the password. I put my kids’ accounts on restricted internet access(they only have access to two websites!) Can anyone help me get into my admin. account?

By: altaira

altaira — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:41:48 +0000

Comment 11 was spot on. Thanks so much!!

By: Gido

Gido — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:38:57 +0000

Can someone please help me, I don’t have the Local Groups because I have Windows Home Premium. My cousin put a password on the Administrator account and now he doesn’t remember it. I only have the Guest account and when I use the Command Prompt, it asks for the Administrator password, which I don’t know! Help!

By: yogesh

yogesh — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:39:30 +0000

That was easy! Thanks a lot! Administrator account is now working.