While logged on to a guest account that's part of an adminstrators group, I
disabled the built in administrator account.
Now I don't have the rights to enable.

Anyone have sugesstions to this conundrum?
Thanks.
Vic

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:47:35 -0400, Victor Abrahamian wrote:

Assuming some version of Windows, you neglected to say what OS that may
affect any answers a lot.

Try and avoid using the word 'guest' it's another type of account /
access level.

You say 'part of an administrators group' do you mean the group called
Administrators.

Odd how one can disable (using the tick box) - Administrator in Win
2000, looks like it could cause problems if accidently disabled.
I thought the administrator could never be disabled. As per
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

Network to a Win XXXX Server, run usermanager as PC2 Administrator and
connect to PC1 user/accounts manger. This works well in NT4 Server /
Workstation setup using User Manager for Domains.

This is to disable local administrator, see if it mentions anything else
http://support.microsoft.com/default...281140&sd=tech

Use the 'guest' as you say account to give itself max permissions,
maybe.

At your own risk
http://www.mirider.com/ntaccess.html

Me

Me,
Thanks for the suggested solution despite my vague explanation of the
situation.
In fact, I am running XP as part of a workgroup.
My guest account, that is, the account that had Guest-level access was
indeed part of the Administrators group(as was your supposition).
Disabling the Administrator account locked me, and I am not sure how to get
back in.
Thanks,
Vic

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"Victor Abrahamian" <victor_a@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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| Me,
| Thanks for the suggested solution despite my vague explanation of the
| situation.
| In fact, I am running XP as part of a workgroup.
| My guest account, that is, the account that had Guest-level access was
| indeed part of the Administrators group(as was your supposition).
| Disabling the Administrator account locked me, and I am not sure how to
get
| back in.
| Thanks,
| Vic
|
| "why?" <fgrirp*sgc@VAINY!Qznq.fpvragvfg.pbz> wrote in message
| news:je5ul0p8a84eqti584ldapkojvf2uv4mrq@4ax.com...
| >
| > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:47:35 -0400, Victor Abrahamian wrote:
| >
| > >While logged on to a guest account that's part of an adminstrators
group,
| I
| > >disabled the built in administrator account.
| > >Now I don't have the rights to enable.
| >
| > Assuming some version of Windows, you neglected to say what OS that may
| > affect any answers a lot.
| >
| > Try and avoid using the word 'guest' it's another type of account /
| > access level.
| >
| > You say 'part of an administrators group' do you mean the group called
| > Administrators.
| >
| > Odd how one can disable (using the tick box) - Administrator in Win
| > 2000, looks like it could cause problems if accidently disabled.
| > I thought the administrator could never be disabled. As per
| >
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
| >
| > >Anyone have sugesstions to this conundrum?
| >
| > Network to a Win XXXX Server, run usermanager as PC2 Administrator and
| > connect to PC1 user/accounts manger. This works well in NT4 Server /
| > Workstation setup using User Manager for Domains.
| >
| > This is to disable local administrator, see if it mentions anything else
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default...281140&sd=tech
| >
| > Use the 'guest' as you say account to give itself max permissions,
| > maybe.
| >
| > At your own risk
| > http://www.mirider.com/ntaccess.html
| >
| > >Thanks.
| > >Vic
| > >
| >
| > Me
|
|

well you'd be a dumb fuck then.

"Victor Abrahamian" <victor_a@sympatico.ca> wrote in completey stupid
message news:20G7d.29664$MD5.1564170@news20.bellglobal.com ...
| Me,
| Thanks for the suggested solution despite my vague explanation of the
| situation.

no shit.

| In fact, I am running XP as part of a workgroup.
| My guest account, that is, the account that had Guest-level access was
| indeed part of the Administrators group(as was your supposition).

why the fuck would you make the guest account part of the administrators
group?! are you retarded?
oh i see, the 5 letters are easier to type rather than 13 o_O

| Disabling the Administrator account locked me, and I am not sure how to
get
| back in.

did you disable the administrator account? or the "Administrators" group?

If you are running xp, you may or may not have been asked to create a
"normal user" which would also be the computer administrator. Usually, it
one of the names on the the welcome screen.

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:32:18 -0400, Victor Abrahamian wrote:

Try the MS XP newsgroups
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp
also Google for MS MVP pages like
http://www.mvps.org/faq/
http://dts-l.org/index.html
XP sites
http://www.theeldergeek.com/
http://www.aumha.org/

So the default that should be disabled Guest account was moved into the
Administrators group. Not very clever.

IIRC the default account created during installation is an Administrator
account, login with that and try.

<snip>

Me

"Victor Abrahamian" <victor_a@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Firstly, if Guest account is still part of the Admin group, why don;t you
just log in as a Guest again, and uncheck disable option for the Admin???

I don;t think you have disabled the built in admin account cos as per
Microsoft XP Help file: "The built-in Administrator account cannot be
disabled. " Therefore you may still have the built in account available. You
have probably disabled the additional Admin account. Try entering with Built
in username "administrator" and blank password, unless of course that was
changed during the installation. If it doesn't work, you need to speak to
person who installed XP to get un/passw; or use some special tools which
I;'m sure someone else will be able to provide.