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No longer have administrative rights to the system.
Hi all,
I have a unique problem. I noticed today that my user account (the only active account on the system), for reasons unknown, no longer has administrative rights to the system. If I try to launch an application as administrator or perform any administrative tasks I am presented with the User Account Control window. The dialog says “To continue, type an administrator password, and then click Yes.” but there are no text fields to enter username/password and the “Yes” button is grayed out (cannot get screenshot). Even if I could enter username/password I would have nothing to type because the default administrator account is disabled and there are no active accounts with administrative access. I consider myself an advanced user and, therefore, have tried a number of different tactics to activate the default administrator account. I have booted off the Windows 7 DVD and launched regedit from the command prompt. I have booted off a live Linux distro and tried to use the chntpw tool to manipulate the SAM database. The problem?... The Windows system disk is encrypted with truecrypt so I cannot access the disk from outside the system (so-to-speak). And I cannot remove the encryption because I need administrative rights to do that. It is a catch-22 problem. Cannot fix the problem until the disk is decrypted, cannot decrypt the disk until the problem is fixed.
Any thoughts? I would appreciate any opinions. I'd rather not re-install my system.