Administrator Account Disappeared?

[LTOwnalot]

To my understanding, XP guards the Admin account from ever being deleted, afterall, if the admin account is gone you pretty much can't do anything on the computer.

But my friend somehow "lost" his admin account, and his computer now does not have any admin accounts. Accessing the user setting is impossible, because you must be in admin account to even touch it.

There must be some kind of way to get around this and restore the admin account. Does anyone know some back door that gets around the "lock" on the non-admin user accounts in order to set the admin account.

Thanks for any help

 

[RebateMonger]

XP Home or XP Professional? The "Administrator" account in XP Home can only be accessed from Safe Mode.

 

[LTOwnalot]

Hmm I'm not sure actually, but since they are sending the laptop in question to me, I will kno soon
Thanks RebateMonger

 

[TSCrv]

go to run, type 'control userpasswords2' and make it autologin with Administrator if possible...

to access admin at normal boot login screen (not safemode) hold CTRL+ALT and tabe DEL twice, it should bring up the window to TYPE your usename and password in

i would try the latter first, hope it helps

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
XP Home or XP Professional? The "Administrator" account in XP Home can only be accessed from Safe Mode.

Even though, XP requires there to be one user account with administrator privlages and prevents you from deleting that account.

Seems like something else is the cause. If you have ghost or another cloning utility, I would use it, then run a repair install of XP. That should bring back the administrator account, I'd imagine.

 

[LTOwnalot]

Thanks a lot guys, I'll try these out