Locked out of Admin Account

chuakp

Hi, I stupidly changed my admin account (not the built-in one) into a
standard user account. I have previously enabled the built-in
administrator account so I thought that I will be able to login as
administrator using that built-in account. But the welcome screen now
does not show the built-in administrator account and I have no access to
any admin account.

I have tried using safe mode but no admin account showed up in the
welcome screen. I cannot even run cmd in safemode as an administrator.
A dialogue box will appear saying that "User Account Control - to
continue, type admin password...". However, there is no prompt for me to
type the admin password and the ok button has also been disabled.

Please help!


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chuakp

Chandan Omkar

Right click 'Computer' and click on "manage'. Go to 'Local user and groups'
right click on users. your account name will be here or create a new account.
It will ask for the administrator password. Enter the one which you had
earlier.

"chuakp" wrote:

>
> Hi, I stupidly changed my admin account (not the built-in one) into a
> standard user account. I have previously enabled the built-in
> administrator account so I thought that I will be able to login as
> administrator using that built-in account. But the welcome screen now
> does not show the built-in administrator account and I have no access to
> any admin account.
>
> I have tried using safe mode but no admin account showed up in the
> welcome screen. I cannot even run cmd in safemode as an administrator.
> A dialogue box will appear saying that "User Account Control - to
> continue, type admin password...". However, there is no prompt for me to
> type the admin password and the ok button has also been disabled.
>
> Please help!
>
>
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> chuakp
>