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I've been playing around with Vista for a couple weeks now off and on.
This morning I decided to see what my user experience would be if I
"demoted" my user account from the Administrators group to the Users
group. I did so, rebooted (I had just loaded a new video driver as
well), and logged back in. At that point Windows popped up a bubble
saying that it had multiple security issues -- no AV and out-of-date
Windows Defender definitions. I opened Windows Defender and told it to
update it definitions at which point it popped up a dialog asking for
an admin password to continue...
At this point I realized that I had just been INCREDIBLY stupid. Not
only was there only one enabled user account on this machine (mine),
but I had just dropped that account out of the Administrators group.
That means that there is no admin password to give it of any sort.
Just to make sure I've been clear there are three users on the
computer: Administrator, Guest, and <mine>. Administrator and Guest
are disabled (just like when I first installed Vista), and my account
is currently only in the Users group.
Is there a way to recover from this or do I have to reload Vista?
TIA,
Jason
This morning I decided to see what my user experience would be if I
"demoted" my user account from the Administrators group to the Users
group. I did so, rebooted (I had just loaded a new video driver as
well), and logged back in. At that point Windows popped up a bubble
saying that it had multiple security issues -- no AV and out-of-date
Windows Defender definitions. I opened Windows Defender and told it to
update it definitions at which point it popped up a dialog asking for
an admin password to continue...
At this point I realized that I had just been INCREDIBLY stupid. Not
only was there only one enabled user account on this machine (mine),
but I had just dropped that account out of the Administrators group.
That means that there is no admin password to give it of any sort.
Just to make sure I've been clear there are three users on the
computer: Administrator, Guest, and <mine>. Administrator and Guest
are disabled (just like when I first installed Vista), and my account
is currently only in the Users group.
Is there a way to recover from this or do I have to reload Vista?
TIA,
Jason