Administrator Account Disabled. HELP

[Ray]

I made the biggest mistake.. Ive disabled the
administrator account, and set my account as a power
user. Is there anyway to re-enable the administrator
account? I tried to change it, but it wouldnt let me for
obvious reasons... I also tried logging through safe
mode, and the administrator wouldnt show up as one of the
user options. I wish that i dont have to resort to
reformatting the hard drive. Any help would be greatly
appreicated..


Thanks..

 

[jpivonka]

While you are waiting to hear from competant advice, which
I am not, this might help - you almost certainly will not
have to resort to reformatting the hard drive. The
original Administrator account is pretty well protected
from deletion, though it may not show up on login screens.

Check out this URL, it may help you to solve your problem,
or to formulate your request for help more precisely.

It will be helpful to know exactly what steps you took to
"disable" the administrator account, in the contest of the
information at the URL:

http://www.winternals.com/support/detail.asp?pid=ap&Article=407

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

XP does allow you to disable it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q281140&sd=tech

I hope you just hid it from the Welcome screen rather than actually
disabling it...