Enable Administrator account

[hammermtl]

I made a foolish mistake

The user account on my machine is set to power user and the administrator account is disabled. Now i can't install any software or basically do anything i'd want to do. i can't access "control userpasswords2" or use system restore to try and revert the settings.

Is there any way for me to re-enable the administrator account? or to upgrade my power user to an administrator?

Thanks

Josh

[tarquel]

I know this sounds ridiculous but have you tried going into safe mode?

I wouldn't have thought windows would let you disable the only account that has Administrator Access :S

but then again...

Worst case scenario - you'd have to use a 3rd party program to reset permissions/account - I *think* something like ERD Commander would do the trick or perhaps something like PEBuilder (search google for the latter - its free but i dont have the link)

Regards,

N.

[hammermtl]

i actually found a way out of it and im surprised it worked

i logged on in safe mode and then logged off and used ctrl + alt +del to get the classic logon and from there admin account worked even though it was disabled. then i unclicked disable account and voila

Happy it worked or i would have been screwed

[tarquel]

Safe Mode is always worth a try

Congratulations on the success

Regards,

N.