USER ACCOUNT VISTA HOME PREMIUM

> Wboquet
>
> There is a Built-in Administrator account that is hidden by default. This
> account can be used to recover from situations such as you are seeing where
> all of the visible administrator accounts have been either deleted or
> changed to Standard User accounts.
>
> Reboot the computer and when it first starts to initialize, start pressing
> the F8 Key until you see a black screen menu. Select the Safe Mode option,
> using the Arrow keys and press Enter.
>
> On the login screen, you should see the Administrator account. This account
> does not have a password associated with it. Click this account icon and the
> system should boot to Safe Mode. Be patient, safe mode can take a few
> minutes to load.
>
> Once the system is loaded, go to Control Panel / User Accounts. Select to
> "Manage another account" select one of the Standard accounts and then select
> to "Change the account type". Change the type to Administrator.
>
> Reboot and log on with the account you just changed. Always make sure that
> you have at least one administrator account configured on the computer.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "wboquet" <wboquet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:56E5284C-C3E0-4E3B-9DE2-3E7F8C02968E@microsoft.com...

> > My sister-in-law purchased a new computer. The user accounts are messed
> > up.
> > At first there were two administrator accounts. This was changed to no
> > administrator accounts. But the computer still thinks there is an
> > administrator account and asks for a password to type in. However there is
> > no
> > place to type it. Therefore the user account are blocked and they do not
> > have
> > access to the administrator account which means they can not do too much.
> > How can this be fixed. Is there a way to bypass the administrator password
> > in
> > order to turn it off and to set up a new admnistrator. They do have a
> > disk
> > to reload the operating system supplied by the manufacturer and this will
> > be
> > used at a last resort. Please help. Thanks

>

>I am having the same problem with Vista home Premium.
>
> I knew for a fact that you can do this on Windows XP machine but not the
> case for my brothers Vista machine.
> I tried this safe mode attempt before i saw this page and there was no
> "Administrator" account, Just his own.
>
> What now?
>