Administrator rights

[Dan Landry]

I inadvertantly created another administrator account
which overwrote my original.
I now have a login with PCName\Administrator.
The problem is that I do not have admin rights & cannot
install a new printer due to insufficiant rights.
Is there a way to bypass this security to reset admin
rights?
This PC resides in a home office so I really don't need
the security.

TIA

DanLandry
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Hi Dan.

You can not "overwrite" the built in administrator account and any user in
the administrators group will have sufficient rights to do any task on the
computer. If you elaborate more maybe we can help. --- Steve

 

[Dan Landry]

The only user I have on the PC is
ComputerName.Administrator.
There is no way for me to view or add users without the
admin signon & that user is not a member of the admin
group. I'm stuck as I signed on without any rights to do
admin tasks.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I am puzzled because the built in administrator is in the local administrators group
and can not be removed form that group or be disabled or did you change from a domain
to workgoup maybe? Perhaps the link below form the FAQ can help you. --- Steve

http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#password

 

[Andrew Mitchell]

I am puzzled because the built in administrator is in the local
administrators group and can not be removed form that group or be
disabled or did you change from a domain to workgoup maybe?

You can change the built in administrator user name though, which it sounds
like he has done.
Changing the username for the admin account, then creating another user using
the 'Administrator' username but assigning no permissions is a common
'honeypot' technique.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

True. I was going by the info that there was only one account on the computer though
actually there has to be two even if guest is disabled. Net localgroup administrators
will tell him for sure. --- Steve