Multiple problems with user accounts and administration

[shannonx]

The charger for my laptop has broke, so I'm using my very old PC for a few days. This computer has two accounts - mine, which is the administrator account, and another, which is a standard account. I put a password on the admin account a few months ago, and now it's expired. I don't have the password reset disk to change it, so I can't get into the account at all. I can't change the password through the standard account, and I can't change the standard account to admin. I've tried everything I could find on the internet - booting in safe mode, running command prompt as administrator and entering various commands, enabling the built in administrator account in different ways, and none of them worked. I also don't have the Windows 7 disk.

Any suggestions would be welcome, as soon as possible! If you need more information, feel free to ask. Thanks.

 

[UsernameIssues]

...I also don't have the Windows 7 disk.

Any suggestions would be welcome, as soon as possible! If you need more information, feel free to ask. Thanks.

Windows 7 Direct Download Links

and

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

 

[Kaktussoft]

how did you run command prompt as admininstrator? And how did you activate the built-in admin account?

 

[shannonx]

Thanks, but as I'm only using this computer temporarily, I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve money or re-installing operating systems. I was hoping there would be a way round it that I haven't already tried yet.

Kaktussoft, I basically just right-clicked on command prompt and clicked 'Run as administrator'. To activate the built-in administrator account, you do have to be an administrator yourself, which I'm not. I followed Method II on this tutorial. - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/102552-built-administrator-enable-winre.html

 

[Kaktussoft]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/102552-built-administrator-enable-winre.html
use method 1

 

[Kaktussoft]

Thanks, but as I'm only using this computer temporarily, I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve money or re-installing operating systems. I was hoping there would be a way round it that I haven't already tried yet.

Wy messing around with a computer which you use temporarily? It's not yours?

 

[shannonx]

The computer is my house's shared computer, I'm using it while I can't use my own laptop.
I can't use Method I - access denied.

 

[karlsnooks]

Talk to one of the "sharers".

 

[Kaktussoft]

The computer is my house's shared computer, I'm using it while I can't use my own laptop.
I can't use Method I - access denied.

??? So you can enter windows recovery environment (as required in Method 1)????
Do you start in with F8 (needs administrator account) or windows 7 dvd (which you don't have)

So... I don't understand

 

[UsernameIssues]

.....I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve money or re-installing operating systems....

What I posted does not involve money if you have the COA sticker on the computer... but it does involve re-installing the OS.

There are ways to accomplish what you want w/o re-installing the OS - but we probably cannot discuss them here.