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My account as a administrator is gone for any reason ,maybe went I tried to open another account with an standard type password I overwrite my administrator account.Now I end up with two standard accounts with no administrator privilege.How could I recover my administrator account.

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For administrator account recovery, turn on your computer start tapping F8 key and the Windows Advanced Options Menu screen will appear. Select safe mode using arrow up or down key then press enter then press enter again to select the operating system. Wait for the loading which could take about 3-5 minutes to load the safe mode.

For system restore: Click Start, Click all programs, Click accessories, Click system tools and click system restore. Here is the video on how to system restore,
Turn on your computer start tapping F8 key and the Windows Advanced Options Menu screen will appear. Select safe mode using arrow up or down key then press enter then press enter again to select the operating system. Wait for the loading which could take about 3-5 minutes to load the safe mode.

Click Administrator to enter that account and click Yes to start running on safe mode, after loading go to control panel and click user accounts. Click create a new account and type the name of the new account and click next. Now pick an account type select administrator then click create account. Restart your computer and when you prompted on your user accounts click the admin account that you made and you have the admin account have a nice day.

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You can remove or change the Windows User oradministrator's password. You need access to a computer with Internet access todownload the Hiren's Boot CD and burn it onto a CD. Then insert this CD into the laptop/computer and boot upthe laptop/computer with the Hiren's CD and follow the instructions. There are very useful utilities CD and it a Linux boot CDwhich contains quite a lot of Utility programs including a password removalprogram. Click on one of these links todownload HIREN'S BOOTCD :- http://www.hirensbootcd.net/ http://67.20.82.163/

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Click start Control Panel.


Select "User Accounts and Family Safety," then "User Accounts."


Click "Turn User Account Control on or off."


Remove the check mark next to "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer."


Click "OK."

Set All Accounts to Administrator


Still in the UAC section of Control Panel, select "Manage another account," and click on a user account.


Click on "Change the account type." When working with multiple accounts, some changes can only be made if you and the account holder are both logged in with "Administrator" accounts so you need to change all user accounts to "Administrator."


When you are done making changes, you can change them back to "Standard," but always leave at least one "Administrator" account.


Select the "Administrator" radio button.


Click "Change Account Type" at the bottom right.


Repeat this procedure to change each user account to "Administrator." When all user accounts have been changed, close the Control Panel.

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Click "Start" (the Windows Vista icon in the lower left of your screen). In the Search box, type "cmd". Right-click on "cmd," and select "Run as Administrator." An elevated command prompt window will appear.


At the command prompt, type "net user administrator /active:yes", and press "Enter."


Choose a password and assign it to the "Administrator" account, by typing "net user administrator 'password'", where 'password' is your selected password. For instance, if your password is "abc," type "net user administrator abc". Press "Enter."


Type "exit" and press "Enter."


Log off. When you log back into your "Administrator" account, you will have full rights.


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Click start Control Panel.


Select "User Accounts and Family Safety," then "User Accounts."


Click "Turn User Account Control on or off."


Remove the check mark next to "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer."


Click "OK."

Set All Accounts to Administrator


Still in the UAC section of Control Panel, select "Manage another account," and click on a user account.


Click on "Change the account type." When working with multiple accounts, some changes can only be made if you and the account holder are both logged in with "Administrator" accounts so you need to change all user accounts to "Administrator."


When you are done making changes, you can change them back to "Standard," but always leave at least one "Administrator" account.


Select the "Administrator" radio button.


Click "Change Account Type" at the bottom right.


Repeat this procedure to change each user account to "Administrator." When all user accounts have been changed, close the Control Panel.

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Click "Start" (the Windows Vista icon in the lower left of your screen). In the Search box, type "cmd". Right-click on "cmd," and select "Run as Administrator." An elevated command prompt window will appear.


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You need to boot to Safemode to do

1. Turn on the Laptop

2. Continuously press the button F8

3. When the menu appears, move to Safe Mode and press Enter.

4. In safe mode, you can create an administrater account as usual
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What is the Operating System installed on your Laptop? For windows, try this:

Open the command prompt, or simply start, type in "cmd" [without quotes], press enter and type in "Net user /active:yes" [without quotes and one space after user] again press enter and confirm if any message pops up. This is enable the administrator's account.

You can also manually enable it from the Computer Management, right-click the My Computer, select "Manage", click "Local users and Groups", then again open "Users", double-click the "Administrator" and enable it.

If you need further help, let me know with more details.

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    Hi Reggie,

    Please read the entire article before proceeding:

    All administrator accounts are created equal, with equal
    powers, except that the main adiminstrator account cannot
    be deleted and it does not appear on the login (or users)
    menu by default.

    You do need an alternate administrator account to solve this
    problem. You must login to a user account with administrative
    privileges in order to access system resources, take ownership
    of files and folders, and to change other people's passwords.
    (including the built-in administrator account)

    Otherwise, what would be the point of any security at all,
    if you could bypass it at will.

    If you can login to another account with administrator pri'vs,
    then follow me. Otherwise you may have to pursue more difficult
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    1) Open up the control panel
    2) Open up Administrative tools
    3) Open up local security settings
    4) Expand Local policies in the LHS folder tree

    Check:
    Accounts: Administrator Account Status = Enabled
    Accounts: Rename Administrator Account = Administrator

    this is to make sure that the admin account is enabled,
    and has not been renamed. You can double click on these
    settings to change them. Is you are for some reason unable
    to enable the admin account, you must reboot to safe mode,
    where the admin account is always enabled.

    Now that you are sure that you have a functioning administrator
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    From the control panel, once again open up

    Administrative Tools ---->
    Computer Management --->
    Local users and Groups ---->
    Users ----->
    Administrator ---->
    Right click on administrator ---->
    SET PASSWORD

    ....

    This should do it.

    N.B.
    The administrator account will be re-created, you will loose
    1) All settings and preferences
    2) Access to any NTFS encrypted files the administrator
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    3) Stored network and internet passwords (the administrator's)
    4) Personal security certificates.

    This procedure is different from simply changing the password,
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    If you have trouble starting the computer management Applet,
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    or

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    ==========================================

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    If you do not have access to an existing account
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    1) Reboot from the 2000 disk, and follow the on screen
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    SYSTEM RECOVERY CONSOLE.

    2) Do not proceed to install Win 2000, make sure you
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    there you missed the prompt and you have gone too far,
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    3) Once you are in the recovery console = DOS like environment
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    You should be able to create a new user account
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    4) The last alternative is to purchase an XP password recovery
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