Re: Accidentally Removed Administrator Account

m121038;926488 Wrote:

> Hopefully this is in the right forum, I don't know much about computers.
> Anyways, I have a Dell running Vista Buisness 32 bit that was issued to
> me by the Navy. I'm out of the military now and wanted to change around
> some of the user settings (some kinda annoying DoD login stuff) but
> unfortunately managed to do something dumb. Rather than just modifying
> the login screen which I meant to do, I think I removed the
> administrator user account.
>
> Before, whenever I wanted to change anything about the computer or
> install something, etc, I would get a little message asking "Are you
> sure?" and then asking for permission. I would just click okay and it'd
> work.
>
>
> Now, though, when I go to change something (like trying to do a "System
> Restore" after my mistake) it comes up with that same permission box,
> but is asking for a user name and a password that I don't have/didn't
> set up. I don't know if this is because I totally wiped out
> administrator controls or it's asking for the infor our IT folk put into
> it before (if they did leave themselves an entrance account I can't get
> the info for it)
>
> All the changes I made were through the control panel, user accounts
> interface.
>
> Any help or advice you guys could give me would be very much
> appreciated, the OS still works overall but I can't install anything
> new, or download anything, or even use some programs/processes already
> installed.
>
> And yes, I know I'm an idiot[image:
> http://www.vistahelpforum.com/images/smilies/frown.gif]

You might try going into Safe Mode ( tap F8 after the Bios screen and
before Vista starts loading )

See if you can create a new administrator account from there

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93...nt-create.html

Or you might try this

http://www.pcloginnow.com/

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