vista unco-operative

Posted: 06-05-2008, 09:33 AM

keiththeengineer

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hi all
I have been handed a vista home basic laptop the kids use and it has
lost the :c drive access
It happened whilst sharing the drive apparently

should be no problem with that but there is no proper administrator
account, now they show as administrators but cannot do anything because
they cannot access the :c drive so I assume the users privelidges are
now limited and override the admin part

you cannot create a user either the current ones behave like basic
users

is there an easy way to enable the built in administrator account which
I can run without the vista DVD ...

plan two is to knock it back to a old image and reload the data which
is still accessable ( mostly )

any comments

cheers keith on the twisted laptop

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keiththeengineer

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Mick Murphy

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RE: vista unco-operative

Posted: 06-05-2008, 11:07 AM

Admin in vista is completely different to XP's Admin
Link below will advise you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/942956
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia

"keiththeengineer" wrote:

>
> hi all
> I have been handed a vista home basic laptop the kids use and it has
> lost the :c drive access
> It happened whilst sharing the drive apparently
>
> should be no problem with that but there is no proper administrator
> account, now they show as administrators but cannot do anything because
> they cannot access the :c drive so I assume the users privelidges are
> now limited and override the admin part
>
> you cannot create a user either the current ones behave like basic
> users
>
> is there an easy way to enable the built in administrator account which
> I can run without the vista DVD ...
>
> plan two is to knock it back to a old image and reload the data which
> is still accessable ( mostly )
>
> any comments
>
> cheers keith on the twisted laptop
>
>
> --
> keiththeengineer
>

mikeyhsd

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Re: vista unco-operative

Posted: 06-05-2008, 02:22 PM

log on in SAFE mode.

mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com

"keiththeengineer" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:0eea8cac5289fdea7b8df51e40791aae@nntp-gateway.com...

hi all
I have been handed a vista home basic laptop the kids use and it has
lost the :c drive access
It happened whilst sharing the drive apparently

should be no problem with that but there is no proper administrator
account, now they show as administrators but cannot do anything because
they cannot access the :c drive so I assume the users privelidges are
now limited and override the admin part

you cannot create a user either the current ones behave like basic
users

is there an easy way to enable the built in administrator account which
I can run without the vista DVD ...

plan two is to knock it back to a old image and reload the data which
is still accessable ( mostly )

any comments

cheers keith on the twisted laptop

--
keiththeengineer

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