> Error when trying to enable administor account

chuckwillis

New Member
My friend's computer has only 1 account active, and it is in the "power users" group. The built-in administrator account is disabled.

For every method I attempt, I use "run as administrator" whenever available.

I open an elevated command prompt and type "net user administrator /active:yes" but I get a system 5 error saying "access is denied".
I go to "control userpasswords2" and try to change my group membership to administrator but access is denied.
I try to create another administrator account and access is denied.
I go to "local users and groups" to try to get this to work....access is denied.

How do I enable the administrator account?
 

linkin

VIP Member
Create a new account with administrative privelages?
if that doesn't work, boot into safemode and the built in admin account will be visible. from there you change the user group or create another account with admin and transfer all the files.
 
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