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  1. Posts : 83
    Windows7 Pro SP1 64 bit
       #1

    User Accounts


    Hi all
    In the past on my Windows7 Pro I have had messages that " I don't have administrator rights" so I have fiddled around until I have, ( I think by opposite clicking and selecting > Run as Administrator ) or making a an Admin account through Control Panel, on rebooting the PC I have been asked to enter my password which I have tried to stop, and now I have 2 login icons on the welcome screen, one is for Administrator and the other Robert, which I click on to open.
    To day a message appeared saying that my Smart Defrag2 had stopped working, ExeptionEInOutError00095B8 which I can't sort out, so I decided to uninstall the program and download it again, unfortunately as I clicked onto the Revo uninstaller I got a message saying that I did not have Administrator privileges so it will not work.
    If I “swap users” the Administrator account screen seems very basic so I have tried to delete the Administrator account through “Add or Remove User Accounts” but there is no remove option for the Admin account only for “ Robert standard account “ which I want to keep.
    Any help to sort this out will be appreciated. Regards Robert.
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  2. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #2

    You definitely don't want to delete the admin account, if you think that one is corrupt you should make a new admin before deleting the old.

    You can lock yourself out of your computer without an admin account.

    I only use Revo when the standard method of uninstalling doesn't work.

    Sounds like you can run this and see if it finds and fixes anything,

    SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

    You may have to run it 3 times with reboots in between.
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  3. Posts : 6,830
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit & Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
       #3

    The Administrator account is a built-in Administrator account . To disable it .

    Open up an Elevated Command Prompt. Click on in type CMD . Right click on CMD under Programs (1) choose . On the User Access Control window click on the Yes button . Command Prompt opens up to C:\Windows\System32>_

    Inside the command prompt enter the command below and press Enter

    net user administrator /active:no


    If done correctly you will get this statement " The Command Completed Successfully "
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  4. Posts : 83
    Windows7 Pro SP1 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks boath for your quick repies and sorry for my slow one, I tried > Start and typed sfc scannow, and nothing happened so I tried typing > net user etc in the comand prompt box and got the message "system error5 access denied"
    Regards Robert.
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  5. Posts : 6,830
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit & Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
       #5

    That error means you didn't try to run the elevated command prompt .
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  6. Posts : 83
    Windows7 Pro SP1 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Hi again, thanks for your interest, I don't quite understand the process yet but I'll try to follow your instructions untill I find the elevated prompt.
    Although I must have done something right as now on login it has stopped asking for my PW and all I do is click on the icon, so I tried again to uninstall a program this time through Control Panel> Programs and Features, and got the message that I needed to be an administrator before I could delete the program.
    Regards Robert.
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  7. Posts : 6,830
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit & Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
       #7

    Click on right-click on Computer

    Click Manage, which should open the Computer Management

    Click the + next to Local Users and Groups

    Click Users

    Double-click your user account

    Click the Member Of tab

    See if it has Administrators listed .
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  8. Posts : 83
    Windows7 Pro SP1 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Hi VistaKing, thanks for the advice, I have opened the PC Management and on the Local Users link there is a User + a Groups account, when I open the User account there is a list showing "Admin, Guest, Home Groups, Robert, Update User"
    When I open > Admin, there is an account description clicking on the > Member Of tab, shows > Administrators and Home Users.
    When I click on Robert the General tab is empty, but the Member Of tab shows > Users
    Regards Robert.
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  9. Posts : 6,830
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit & Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
       #9

    Login to the Built-in administrator account . Once you're logged in . Open an elevated command prompt by doing the following

    Click on start button in type CMD . Right click on CMD under Programs (1) choose . On the User Access Control window click on the Yes button . Command Prompt opens up to C:\Windows\System32>_

    Inside the command prompt type in this command

    net localgroup administrators Robert /add
    then press Enter

    Your Robert account then should be in the Administrators group .
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  10. Posts : 83
    Windows7 Pro SP1 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Hi again, I think Win7 Pro must be a bit diferent? as after opening the admin built in account & clicking on admin in the "Member of" tab I could not find a "Run as Administrator" so after typing CMD while this was open the Win sys 32 cmd box opend and I typed the net localgroups etc, and the message was "An object named Robert cannot be found" so I tried entering Robert in the "Full name box" and Ok'd it on the General tab, of each of the 3 options Admin, Home group users and Robert, and access was denied.
    I tried again with the CMD command and this time the massage was as follows > The syntax for this command is:
    net
    [ ACCOUNTS|COMPUTER||CONFIG|CONTINUE|FILE|GROUP|HELP|STATISTICS|STOP|USE|USER|VIEW]
    I:\Users\Robert>_

    Hope this makes sense, Thanks for your help
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