Deleted Administrator Account

[Cujane]

I'm hoping someone can help me and soon as I purchased the LG X120 netbook for my daughter for Christmas. I was getting it all set up and then put on parental controls like a good mom would, but discovered I needed to have a separate account for her as a standard user and one for me as the administrator. Through this process there was a quick pop up that stated I could not complete the instruction without being a standard user...didn't put much thought into this as I knew I could just change it back after.....I was more mistaken than I have ever been.

Now there's no administrator account, I cannot run anything as the User Account Control asks for an administrator password but does not supply an area in which to input this. I have tried to run windows in safe mode but no administrator account shows up. I have tried to go through the computer management but no user or groups exists. Cannot reinstall Windows 7 as it came with the computer and there is no disk and even if it did, I cannot install unless I am an administrator. I cannot install anything so it makes for a pretty lame gift!

Any thoughts anyone? I need to get this fixed before Christmas morning! Heeellllllp!

 

[Tews]

Enable hidden administrator account, create a new user as an administrator, then disable the hidden administrator... See Brinks tutorial on how to do this -=> here


Merry Christmas!

 

[Cujane]

Thank you for the reply....however, I have tried this. There is no Local Security Policy editor, no local user and groups, and the command prompt says access denied. I'm thinking I'm hooped here.

 

[richc46]

Did you try to log in without a password? Could be its set up without password.

 

[richc46]

All computer come with a restore disc or restore partition. Use your manual, it will tell you how to restore to factory specs. You must boot up, while you boot up you hit a key, which allows you to restore. It is probalby a f key. Please, I know you are upset, but I truly think we will get this to work out.

 

[Cujane]

I removed the passwords from both my daughter's and my account so at log in, it only shows our 2 accounts and I can log in on both. Neither will allow any changes to the user account.

 

[richc46]

Read my reply above about factory specs. I and everyone on the staff, here, will try to make sure that your daughter has a wonderful Christmas.

 

[Cujane]

I'll try it and let you know....thanks!

 

[Cujane]

Well it worked, thank you very much. I just have to reinstall everything again but at least I CAN now. I did not realize though that it would uninstall all the music etc... though, sigh.

Thanks for your very fast and successful reply!

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Well it worked, thank you very much. I just have to reinstall everything again but at least I CAN now. I did not realize though that it would uninstall all the music etc... though, sigh.

Thanks for your very fast and successful reply!

Glad that you got it working ....

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