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Toughie - Administrator disabled & no standard way to change - ikbol - May 3, 2013
A v. difficult problem of how to re-enable Administrator account.
First after bootup I have minor difficulties logging in - get a green screen with
"You cannot log on because the logon method you are using is not allowed on this computer.."
After clicking on boxes, I get a choice between "Guest" and "Other User" - and then can enter and get into "Mike/ no password" account and open the Win 7 desktop.
But then the Administrator account is disabled - so I cannot use any computer-altering prog.
I get "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes etc?" with the YES option blanked out! - and no way to type in the Administrator password.
I have tried standard recommendations - and none work:
from Command - "net users Administratot /active:yes" - I get "System error 5 has occurred... Access is denied"
*lusurmngr.msc - won't allow me to alter accounts
*netplwiz won't run - same permission box blanked out
*User Accounts Control panel - won't work
*Command [Accessories] - Run as Administrator - permission box blanked out
*SAFE MODE - same login?Administrator problems - and no possibility of running computer-altering antivirus problems like Rkill
I scanned with AVG and Malware Bytes which found no problems apart from one months old patch prog. now removed.
Now what?! How do I reenable Administrator? Thx for any help.
* - webdev77 - May 3, 2013
I suggest that you find konboot and use it to log onto the administrator account of the computer. Grab the hashes from the sam file if you don't know which account is the administrator, then just try all the accounts.
* - Corso - May 3, 2013
If you can get into Recovery Console, we can activate the administrator account from there and get you back up and running, also should be able to re-add your user to the Local Group of 'Administrators'.
Do you have your Operating System Installation Disk?
* - Zumoto - May 3, 2013
Like webdev77 said if you can get access to a Konboot CD you can boot into the Administrator account, and regain control from there.
If not, then you can try burning a OphCrack Live Cd and see if it can retrieve the password for you.
Good Luck. 🤝
* - Corso - May 3, 2013
(May 3, 2013 01:08 PM)Jonathan™ Wrote: Like webdev77 said if you can get access to a Konboot CD you can boot into the Administrator account, and regain control from there.
If not, then you can try burning a OphCrack Live Cd and see if it can retrieve the password for you.
Good Luck. 🤝
Main issue is its disabled, not the password.
* - webdev77 - May 4, 2013
(May 3, 2013 06:08 PM)Corso Wrote: Main issue is its disabled, not the password.
Okay, I must have misread or something the first time. Here is really what you need to do: http://4sysops.com/archives/offline-enable-the-built-in-administrator-account-in-windows-7-and-vista/
* - Corso - May 4, 2013
(May 4, 2013 11:00 AM)webdev77 Wrote: Okay, I must have misread or something the first time. Here is really what you need to do: http://4sysops.com/archives/offline-enable-the-built-in-administrator-account-in-windows-7-and-vista/
Nice find and link :) Hopefully the OP posts soon about the current status and if your advice, or mine, fixed anything.