Hi all,

just got a new VAIO, with VISTA HOME BASIC preisntalled. I have experience with VISTA for past 4-5 months now, but the "ultimate" betas only. in which u just login with the First user u make, which is an Admin by default & then enable ADMINISTRATOR from the user control snap-in. But in VISTA HOME BASIC the snap-in doesn't load & says to use user account Icon from control panel. I have tried my whole knowledge & even googled alot but all methods point to the same above way i use for ultimate, but since there is no "USERs & groups" section in the computer management, how am i supposed to enable administrator a/c so i can login. Pls gurus, help me out, I need a clue badly.

Thx

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]
"Administrator"=dword:00000001

copy code in notepad ans save as *.reg then patch the registry.

may be this helps U...

I hope

try this becoz I m not using Windows Vista Home Basic

This worked on Home Premium.

If you can not see your administrator account:

Open command prompt (run as administrator) and use following command to enable

Administrator account and set a password on it:

net user Administrator v3ryStr()ngP4$$wOrd /ACTIVE:YES

where "v3ryStr()ngP4$$wOrd" is a password you want to assign to account.

Reboot and the Admin account should be available.