Comments on: How to enable Administrator account in Vista

By: DAREN

DAREN — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:04:06 +0000

Ken, you have to do a registry edit to solve your problem, google is you friend ” vista content/parental control ”

you must have an account with administrative rights.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:47 +0000

Make a bootdisk to enable default admin and then make your account admin @ http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:11 +0000

Make a bootdisk to recover default admin and then enable your account again @ http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

By: David

David — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:11:26 +0000

I am using Vista 64bit home premium version. I ran into the same problem with the Administrator thing. I am not on a network though, I am standalone. I have tried various things to get the Administrator Account activated. Nothing seems to work. When I use the “net user administrator/enable:yes” I get a prompt for a different syntax. There is no confirmation that anything happened and I still don’t have admin access. Any suggestions?

By: ken

ken — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:27:41 +0000

when I try to setup parental control in Vista, It pops up a screen asking for password, however it does not allow me to enter password.

Thanks in advance for help

By: Brandy

Brandy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:15:57 +0000

I’m trying to enable my friend’s administrator on Vista. When I type the command to enable the administrator account, instead of telling me that it’s completed successfully, it shows me this:

The syntax of this command is:

NET USER
[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/DOMAIN]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]
username [/TIMES:{times | ALL}]

What does this mean? Can someone please offer me some assistance?

Would be much obliged and so would my friend.

By: 3hogfans

3hogfans — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:42:23 +0000

this works perfect!

for those of you with a hoome edition of vista, local users and groups is not available for that version. you have to use the cmd line function to enable the administrator account.

click on the vista icon at bottom left and then type ‘cmd” in the search bar. do not just press “enter”!! you have to hit CNTRL-SHIFT-ENTER. this way you will not get the “error 5″. next type or cut paste “net user administrator /active:yes”. it will confirm that the action was taken, next restart your computer and the administrator account should be visible at the login screen.

By: Sokun

Sokun — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:10:53 +0000

Hi,

I have a problem in accessing my computer now. Please help me or provide any solution as you can.

I have just changed my administrator account name from “sokun” to “Sokun” and then i enabled the guest account and set the password for it. I logged off and restarted, i can’t see my account logon screen now. It shows only one account which is the Guest account. So i can’t do anything with the guest account.

Thanks in advance!!!

By: Jake Speyer

Jake Speyer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:04:07 +0000

Alright so I’ve tried the active:yes command and this way. But whenever I do either, it says access is denied. I can get all the way to the point of where i click enable administrator account but then when I hit apply it says access is denied.

When doing active:yes, I’ve saved it as a .bat file, but when I try to run as an administrator, it runs and then stops and quits. Please help.

By: Daren

Daren — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:36:41 +0000

the other way to see the ” Administrator ” account is to get you pc to start in safe mode (i believe) at that point you have to know the password if there is one, sometimes in the default config there is no password.

strongly suggest to not have the pc connected to the WWW. while you use that account, you will have complete power, but so will any intruders…

By: Leodisxxx

Leodisxxx — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:42:01 +0000

Thanks Darren worked great on vista home premium.

By: D. Pramanik

D. Pramanik — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:12:50 +0000

I didn’t have “Local Users and Groups” in the menu. Only Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, Shared Folders, Reliability and Performance, and Device Manager, storage, service and application. I made myself Administrator (I thought) through the User Accounts. How to enable Administrator account in Vista. Please help me

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:44:14 +0000

Okay i have tryed all the steps. i am a guest account with admin rights and get the system error. i do not understand! help!

By: Abdul

Abdul — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:56:46 +0000

Hi, I’m using Vista’s Business Edition and I’ve been using my account as an administrator for a while, but than changed it to standard user as for precautions (so that I could use the main administrators account).

But now, I see that my main administrators account is disabled, and as I’m a standard account user, neither can I change my old account back to an administrator nor can I activate the administrator account..

I’m really stuck, hope y’all can help out. Thanks

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:44:39 +0000

Thank you.. was struggling for a while.. this helped alot

Thanks again