UAC can not elevate

[Guest]

Hello
I am unable to perform any Administrative tasks becasue my only true
Administrator was previously hidden from the Welcome Screen and remains so
after upgrading from XP to Vista Home Premium.

When I attempt to run regedt32.exe As Administrator my UAC dialogue appears
but there is no password box, and so am unable to elevate.

I know this is a hot issue. Does anyone have a route thru' this?

Thanks in advance, Simon

 

[Kerry Brown]

Try task manager. Enable "Show processes from all users" and see if you can
elevate task manger. If you can elevate it then click on the Applications
tab and start a new task. Type in compmgmt.msc and you should be able to add
a user or edit the existing users.

 

[Guest]

Hello Kerry
Thanks for your reply. I am unable to elevate Task Manager in the way you
receommend. UAC starts and says -

"To continue please type an administrator password"

But there is no textbox to enter the password.

Rgrds, Simon

 

[Kerry Brown]

When you boot to safe mode is the "Administrator" account available for
logon?

Another possibility is adding a user through remote management. On another
computer run compmgmt.msc. Right click on Computer management (local) and
pick Connect to another computer. This may allow you to add another user
then add the user to the administrators group.

 

[Guest]

No Kerry, I've tried that. I've also tried..

1. booting in Safe Mode with Networking Support
2. Rundll netplwiz etc and setting permissions there like enabling
"Ctrl+Alt+Del"
3. cmd line net user username passoword /active:yes (this returns error 5
access denied)
4 your recommedation (task man)

although I have attempted elevation with Run As and Ctrl + Shift with other
programs.

By design Windows is behaving itself. UAC is doing its job. The problem is
with its dialog i.e. I am unable to enter a password to elevate. This may be
a result of having just upgraded from Win XP Media Centre to Vista Home
Premium (compmgmt.msc is therefore unavailable anyway), the upgrade completed
successfully and final reboot to the Vista Welcome Screen proudly displayed
usr1 & usr2.

Great, except I can't Ctrl+Alt+Del logon to administer the machine and
finish off the installation. Why? The true Administrator is the only machine
Administrator which was previously suppressed from the WinXP Welcome Screen
(see http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm).

With a Ctrl+Alt+Del I'm scuppered! If you or your colleagues have any other
ideas please don't hesitate to post - otherwise it's looking like a
re-installation.

Rgrds, Simon

 

[Kerry Brown]

It may indeed require a reinstall. I think on the wish list for Vista there
should be a F8 boot option to boot to the normally disabled administrator
account with UAC disabled. This would allow troubleshooting of UAC problems.
Currently I've seen a few situations where the fix is obvious but because
UAC is borked the fix can't be done.

 

[Guest]

I fear you are right. It's remarkable. I suspect the Standard User XP
Account somehow is not enough to qualify for elevation following an upgrade.
Do you know a command line option for a setting a user with a Vista Standard
User Account? This might just do it. Rgrds, Simon

 

[Kerry Brown]

Without elevation I don't think it's possible.

 

[Paul]

As Bruce Chambers said : It sounds as if Vista is behaving as designed.
And as I said : Vista is a piece of SHIT. If I several months of factory
schooling like the Bill Gates Vista representatives, I probably wouldn't
have a problem with Vista either.