Account not appearing in Welcome page!

[Ashley]

Hey, I've recently made a new account and made that the admin account whilst
changing the current one to a standard account. There was a password and
everything. But everytime I restart or log off, only the standard account
shows up on the welcome screen. The new account is no where to be seen. And
when I try to meddle with the account settings again, it won't accept my
admin password. What's going on???? Was there a step I missed while creating
my admin account?
I'm panicking!

 

[Ashley]

Hello Ashley,
Stand by your panic button--- just kidding !
Now , question 1 : do you have an admin account to logon to ?
question 2 : you do know password maybe case sensitive, do you
?
question 3 : please describe step by step how did you set up
the admin acct with password.
question 4 : Did that admin acct you set up ever work at all.
I mean had you tried to see if it worked before you lost it ?

Answer to Question 1: I don't have another admin account to logon on. each
time I enter my password, a message comes up saying that 'this user has not
been granted the requested logon type at this computer'

Question 2: yes, i do realise that it'se case sensitive and i've tried it
with and without caps on. neither worked.

Question 3: I created a new account, gave it admin status, it requested for
me to create a password, which i did. I typed in my password, reconfirmed it.
I rebooted the system and when the welcome page came on, the new admin
account wasn't there. So I went in via the main account to 'manage other
accounts' and it shows that the new account is active even though it's not
showing. So whilst checking the status of my main account, I accidentally set
it to a standard account. From then on, everytime I needed to 'manage
accounts' it asked for the admin password which i entered but can't get in.
And the admin account is still not showing up on the welcome page. That kinda
askwers question 4 as well!

 

[Ashley]

Hello Ashley,
Logon to your standard account. Go to Control Panel , click it. Left
panel, click Control Panel Home ( you might be on Classic view), click
Add or Remove user accounts, click Continue when prompted. Now what do
you see? One account or 2 ? Do you see the admin acct you created ? ( It
may sound crazy, but I tried it on my computer and it worked.) Whatever
you see, click your standard account, click change account type, you
will be prompted, just click Continue. Now change it back to admin
account.
Are you soccessful in dong that ? I know people will tell me it won't
work. But it did on my computer. So, give it a try. I'm keeping my
fingers crossed.

I've just tried doing that but it requires admin password and the same thing
comes up when i enter my password. It's not saying that its a bad password.
Just that 'The user has not been granted the requested logon type on this
computer'
=(
ashley

 

[Ashley]

Hello Ashley,
It was stupid of me even making such suggestions in my last post. I
apologize.
I have a link for you. It is for resetting passwords. In that tutorial,
there are several Methods. If you have Vista Installation DVD, you can
choose Method Five, otherwise Method Three is the ONLY one applicable to
your case. Both are quite involving. Please read carefully before you
jump in. Now I personally have never try any of those 2 before, so if
you have questions regarding the methods, I may not be able to answer.
Reason being, wrong advice could be detrimental to your computer
integrity.
I'm not washing my hands, just to hit home that I know less than you
think. Here is the link. Good luck.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html

okay =) thank you very much for your help ^^