Accidently deleted Administrator - now what?

[Brad Morris]

Somehow I have deleted the administrator account. I now have just a limited
account.

How do we go about getting administrator set back up?

Thanks

[Gordon]

"Brad Morris" > wrote in message
...
> Somehow I have deleted the administrator account. I now have just a
> limited account.
>
> How do we go about getting administrator set back up?
>
> Thanks
>
>


I didn't think you COULD delete the built-in Administrator account. Try
booting into Safe Mode and see if it shows up......

[Patrick Keenan]

"Brad Morris" > wrote in message
...
> Somehow I have deleted the administrator account. I now have just a
limited
> account.
>
> How do we go about getting administrator set back up?
>
> Thanks

Is this XP Pro or XP Home?

You shouldn't actually be able to do this from the normal XP GUI, and not
from the limited account. Do you really mean that you disabled the
account?


Here's one reported method of re-enabling it:

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic65.html

"Disabled Admin Recovery Soultion
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I recently had the same problem, where I accidentally disabled my admin
account. I had to install a patch to run Nero giving it access to the
burners, and to cut a long story short I ended up with my admin account
disabled and no way of logging back into my machine. Since the last few
posts did not resolve this problem, and I am sure there are going to be
others who will find themselves in the same predicament, I decided to share
my experience and solution.
There are numerous hacks that can be used, and I would advise people against
them. Instead, stick with XP and work through the problem. To restate the
problem, if the admin account has been disabled (to the best of my knowledge
there is no way to delete it completely!) you will come to the windows login
without a login name. You can press ctrl+alt+delete twice to pull-up a
log-in screen and when you type in "administrator" and enter your password
(if you have one!) it will say "Your account has been disabled. Please
contact your systems administrator." Obviously you can't go much further
with this. Instead, re-start your machine and keep hitting F8 and enter safe
mode with command prompt. You should be able to hit ctrl+alt+delete twice to
pull up a log-in screen again and re-enter administrator and whatever
password you may have. That will take you to a command prompt "C:\ documents
and settings/administrator." Now you are in business. Simply type "control"
at the prompt and press enter. This should bring up a message that allows
you to enter Windows recovery function, and it will also open the control
panel. Click on Administrative Tools and then Local Security Policies to
bring up the settings. On the left side bar you can select Local Policies
and then Security Options and Enable the Administrator Account the same way
you may have disabled it. Of course another possibility and perhaps simpler
option is to revert back to an earlier setting using the recovery utility. I
actually enabled my admin account, so I am not sure if recovery will fix the
problem. I think it should.
Well, hope this helps anyone else who finds him/herself in this precarious
position!
~Cavinda"

-pk