mehargags Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]"Administrator"=dword:00000001copy 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 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$$wOrd /ACTIVE:YESwhere "v3ryStr()ngP4$$wOrd" is a password you want to assign to account.Reboot and the Admin account should be available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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