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Thread Author: Fenlander Replies: 5
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New Sun 21 Mar 10 00:27 
 Mucked up the Admin / User Account - Fenlander
Just done something daft.

Decided I needed to set up an admin account on our Vista PC seperate to the main account we call Family..... and in doing so I've ended up with two accounts... but neither is an admin account.

Now when I try to get into the places this might be resolved a box pops up asking me to type in an admin password and click OK. Weirdly there is no box to type anything within this popup and the OK button stays greyed out.

Any ideas??
Last edited by: Fenlander on Sun 21 Mar 10 at 00:28
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New Sun 21 Mar 10 01:15 
 Mucked up the Admin / User Account - Manatee
www.vistax64.com/tutorials/93026-user-account-delete.html
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New Sun 21 Mar 10 12:24 
 Mucked up the Admin / User Account - Fenlander
Thanks for the link. It didn't give the answeer as such but gave clues to a resolution. It turns out that there is a hidden admin account which appears in safe mode if you press F8 at startup.

By using that account in safe mode I was able to go into the user account area from control panel and make one of the other accounts back into an admin type.

Then on a normal reboot it was all fine.
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New Sun 21 Mar 10 13:10 
 Mucked up the Admin / User Account - Manatee
Good;-) Couldn't stay up any longer last night, hence abrupt response!
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New Sun 21 Mar 10 17:20 
 Mucked up the Admin / User Account - Iffy
...there is a hidden admin account which appears in safe mode if you press F8 at startup...

Well, any fool should have known to press F8 at start-up. :)

Usual less than intuitive Windows solution.

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New Sun 21 Mar 10 18:12 
 Mucked up the Admin / User Account - Zero
like the three fingered reset ctrl/alt/delete

You have to bear in mind, that the basic PC architecture we have now, was never intended or designed for home use.
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