My administrator account is gone?!

[Mike]

Hi. I'm trying to log on as administrator, but the
account does not seem to be there. I read somewhere that
this account cannot be deleted, but it seems to be. When
I explore to "Documents and Settings", there are 2
different accounts, but neither has admin privledges.

Even if there was an admin account, I wouldn't know what
the password is.

What do I do?

 

[Epona]

Hi. I'm trying to log on as administrator, but the
account does not seem to be there. I read somewhere that
this account cannot be deleted, but it seems to be. When
I explore to "Documents and Settings", there are 2
different accounts, but neither has admin privledges.

Even if there was an admin account, I wouldn't know what
the password is.

What do I do?

To access the main Admin user: -

Home: - Restart in Safe Mode

Pro: - Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del twice at the welcome screen.

It is impossible to delete the main Admin account (unless you do something
really creative); as for the password well, if it's your computer you'd know
what the password is because you'd have set it. If you didn't set one - well
there isn't one.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

There is a hidden admin account that cannot be deleted. There are user
accounts that you create that have admin privileges.

It sounds as though your administrator user account may be corrupt, try the
information in the following Knowledge Base Article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q318011

 

[Mike]

I tried what the article instructed, but there is an
error: When I get into "User Accounts", there wasn't
a "Advanced" tab, or any tab.

what now??

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

OK, forget about the Advanced tab, open Control Panel, open User Accounts,
you should see a link that says create a new account. If you are able to do
that, do so then follow the rest of the information about copying the files
from the old user profile to the new one.