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Ok...this may be a tricky one...I've been searching around on quite a few forums, and nothing yet.
So, the other day, I booted into Windows 7 (I'm dual-booted with XP), and I no longer have an admin privledges on my only account. I've tried using the net user administrator commands, but I keep getting that access is denied. If I try to do anything on my computer, I get the UAC window that requires me to enter a password. (There's no input box there, but I'm not sure if that matters or not???). Well, since I have no other account, and the only password that I do have doesn't work, I'm basically stuck. Has anyone else had this problem? I have no idea how to do anything since I no longer can do anything as an administrator. I guess I might have to just reinstall 7, but I would like to avoid that if possible. So...any ideas would be great!
Thanks!
So, the other day, I booted into Windows 7 (I'm dual-booted with XP), and I no longer have an admin privledges on my only account. I've tried using the net user administrator commands, but I keep getting that access is denied. If I try to do anything on my computer, I get the UAC window that requires me to enter a password. (There's no input box there, but I'm not sure if that matters or not???). Well, since I have no other account, and the only password that I do have doesn't work, I'm basically stuck. Has anyone else had this problem? I have no idea how to do anything since I no longer can do anything as an administrator. I guess I might have to just reinstall 7, but I would like to avoid that if possible. So...any ideas would be great!
Thanks!
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Ok...I got it fixed. Just to let everyone else that may have this problem, I wanted to get my account back as an administrator. I'm sure there are a few ways to do this, but here's how I did. I booted into safe mode, opened a command prompt, and entered this command: control userpasswords2. Once in there, I selected the user I wanted to adjust, hit Configure, and then put me into the Adminstrators group. Now, it's working fine.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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