My Administrator account turned to Guest account


  1. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #1

    My Administrator account turned to Guest account


    Hey guys. Im having a problem with my computer!somehow my administrator account has turned to a guest account. Today I tried to unistall a program and it didnt let me saying i needed to be admin. . Also I tried turning it to admin by using cmd command but it says access not allowed.
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  2. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #2

    Ok I have these

    Administrator - Built-in account for administering the computer/domain

    Guest - Built-in account for guest access to the computer/domain

    Homegroupuser$ - Built-in account for homegroup access to the computer

    (MyAdminwhichTurnedTOguest)

    VSA Server Account - Account for the Visual Studio Analyzer server components
    I cant even unistall or delete simple things like shortcuts
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  3. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks for the replies guys. First of all I did what you told me, I downloaded Malwarebytes PRO And run a scan to see if I had any type of malware. It turns out this program I downloaded of the net had a binded virus with it. I'm amazed how I scanned it with Bitdefender I had nothing but now with Malwarebytes this...
    So I got rid of the server.exe which was binded with it but still can't seem to turn my original admin which had all my documents and pictures to admin. I just want to activate the admin but I'm sure in the guest account I cannot activate it. So if you can please tell me how to activate the Admin account? Once again Thanks for the malware heads up.
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  4. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #4

    It says access is denied
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  5. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #5

    Hello Bob,

    See if you may be able to fix this by booting into Safe Mode, enable the built-in Administrator account, log out, log on to the built-in "Administrator" account, then see if you can change your user account back to being an administrator.

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  6. Posts : 2
    CA
       #6

    Wouldn't you need admin access anyways to enable the built in-admin?
    I'm having this same problem right now and I have no clue how to get around this.
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  7. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #7

    Hello Kirshy, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

    You should be able to do what I posted above to enable the built-in Administrator account to use to fix your account.
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  8. Posts : 2
    CA
       #8

    Brink said:
    Hello Kirshy, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

    You should be able to do what I posted above to enable the built-in Administrator account to use to fix your account.
    You pretty much need some type of admin to do all of things,
    Whenever I try doing any command prompt fixes, it just gives me an access denied error.
    I'm thinking if purchasing a new hard drive and OS would fix this problem, it seems like there isn't a solid fix to get around it currently.
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