Administrator Account Issues

Hi, I may have done a big mistake while configuring a PC. There were two accounts, a user-type and an administrator-type. I only wanted to use the user-type and disabled the Admin account from lusrmgr.msc without thinking that the other account had no administrative rights.

Therefore, I can't install any programs because I must input the Administrator account password, but the password box is missing. I also can't enable the Admin account again because I have no admin rights on my actual account.

Is there anything to do about this or should I reinstall my Windows?

Solved: Reinstalled Windows 7. Although, this was an incredibly frustrating problem.

Hello Stely,

You might see if you may be able to enable the built-in Administrator at boot, and enable your other administrator account back.

Built-in Administrator - Enable from WinRE

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Are you able to undo your actions while booted into Safe Mode?

How about with just F8 and not Shift F8?

Safe Mode

In that case, you might try doing a system restore at boot using a restore point (if available) dated before you did this to hopefully undo it.

Otherwise, you may be looking at reinstalling Windows 7.