Comments on: Enable the (Hidden) Administrator Account on Windows 7 or Vista

By: Luis Castillo

Luis Castillo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:57 +0000

When I first got my computer, which had windows vista, my brother accidently set himself as the admin. account and forgot his password. The problem is that if I try to download anything like adobe or limewire, it ask for the permission of my brothers account which is the administrator, and he forgot the password. So my question is that if find this “hidden admin. account”, will I be able to download what I want.

PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!

By: markthrice

markthrice — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:21:56 +0000

not really a quetion, just a thought. i think it’s funny because i looked so forward to getting my windows 7. i preordered it like 10 minutes before it went from 49.99 to whatever it is now. anyway i have windows xp and win 7 both on my pc and i have very little experience with vista. this is an amd quad core with 4gb memory that i put together myself. the thing is with win 7 i can cross over into xp and look around but it’s very difficult to manipulate any files. I get so many administrator messages when i try to change something or even just view a file. But… when i boot into my trusty old xp i can enter windows 7’s house and reak havoc. i can look at and change, copy, move or delete anything i want.It’s hilarious. 7 won’t let me do anything but xp is a god. So who is microsoft kidding. It seems like they are trying to limit your abilities and to expand there’s. They can come in and take over your computer but you can’t get out. Slaves and prisoners of the cyber world.

By: K

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:23:48 +0000

Ok, so I unknowingly changed the name of my hidden admin account in vista but still have no problems turning it on and off. What happened was i sent it to an IT guy and he must have turned it on and I thought it was just a new account that I could not delete. However, I cannot change it back to just being named administrator. Also, not many, but a few apps won’t let me run them on my just normal admin account. Anyone got an idea of what to do. I have Windows 7 as well, I just haven’t installed it yet on this particular computer, would doing a clean install help me get it back to normal. would just doing the upgrade option reset it back to normal aswell?

By: Miodrag

Miodrag — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:22:53 +0000

Very good totoriali instructions, you helped me with Ubuntu, Thanks

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:44:42 +0000

Hi all. I have read this post but been very non technical I am either missing the soulution or its just not in here but my problem is as follows…

I got my son a loptop and whilst in his user profile which was set as the default account i change the account name to his. I then created another two users profiles whilst still logged in his profile (one for me and my wife). I made mine an admin user and my wifes a standard user. I then removed the admin rights for the user account i was logged in as (my sons). When i then logged off and returned to the user profile menu after start up I could only see my sons and my wife’s accounts. Yet when i try to do anything that requires admin approval i get a pop up box with my account name and a request for the password i set. Now i know 1 million% the password i used to set up the admin account but it doesnt accept it, so therfore i now have no way managing anything that requires admin access.

I have googled and looked for a solution and this thread seems to be the closest I can find that may have people reading that may know a solution. Can anyone help? I notice no one has posted anyresponses to questions here for a while so would appreciate any help!!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:36:07 +0000

Hey. This post seems very helpfull, but my problem is abit worse. Somebody had fiddled with the windows controls on our pc, and now for some reason, we only have 2 standard user accounts, and NO administrator accounts. Whenever a download has to be made, it keeps opening the administrator box for the password in order to continue. Only 1 problem ; there is no box to type the password in (probably because there is no admin accounts). Also, on 1 of the accounts for some reason, most of the programs keep getting blocked 1 by 1, and you cannot unblock them. If i try opening anything with “run as admin” it will give me a box for the password, but there is nowhere to type anything. Ive never had a problem like this, please help if you can. There are NO viruses what so ever on the PC. Have scanned 2 times with 2 different programs.

thanks

By: James

James — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:07:26 +0000

I bought a new tower for my computer and moved. My girlfriend at the time was there and asked if she could use it and Being nice I said yes. We broke up and I got my computer back, but she has passwords in place so I can’t even load games onto my computer and she was the administrator, what or how can I get around the passwords and use my computer?

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:48:13 +0000

Cheers mate, this has just helped me get out from deep shit

By: Peter Hernandez

Peter Hernandez — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:42:30 +0000

i did what u said but it says System error 5 has occurred access is denied what does it mean and how do i fix it??

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:14:54 +0000

i have done what u said to be done about the command promt but while trying to access the “Run As Administatior” it still needed a password to even enter that specific command. what can i do now?