Administrator Account broken in Vista Home Premium.

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I activated the Administrator account on my OEM install of Windows Vista Home
Premium so I could actually get access to the locations and files I needed to
(I'm an advanced user and a programmer, so I don't need to be nannied by the
stupid - *stupid, stupid, stupid* - security system).

I used the administrator account for a while and everything was fine until
one day I was greeted with the message that "my user profile didn't load
correctly, and I'd been logged onto a temporary account". It then also told
me to seek help from my administrator(!?!?!??!)

I cannot find any way to actually fix the administrator account, and normal
"administrator" accounts don't do the trick as they're really NOT
administrator accounts (I mean, seriously - WTF!?), so can someone from
Microsoft please tell me how to sort this out short of launching the PC
carrying this truly awful piece of software straight out of the highest
window I can find...?

How do I fix the actual administrator account???

Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!! :( :( :( :(
 
Hi,

You probably won't like this answer, but I'll send it anyways.

What you likely have is a corrupted user account, generally this is not
recoverable unless you have an image backup. The "true" administrator
account was not meant for day to day use, it is there as a failsafe to be
used when no other options are available. When a userprofile has been
corrupted, the solution is to create a new account and migrate the user's
files to it. Since you weren't using a standard user or user admin account,
you're basically out of luck beyond reinstalling. To put it another way,
you've bent the master key. Since you used it instead of a replica, you left
yourself no way of getting into the house beyond breaking the lock.

Incidentally, a user admin account can easily be added to system permission
sets, and with uac disabled you would be able to operate unfettered by the
nags.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Whatever. I don't think I'm alone when I say that a major corporation like
Microsoft releasing a completely bugged and security locked-down piece of
software like Vista is dumb.

I shouldn't have to spend ages trying to research how to "trick" the system
into giving me full admin rights - if my user is an administrator, it should
be just that, AN ADMINISTRATOR!

And "just plain DUMB" is the best you can come up with? Get a grip, you
utter, utter freakish loser. You'll be starting to say things to me like
"n00b" next. You do realise there's a world outside your bedroom at Mom's,
right?

Vista is a 110% step backward from XP - there's no doubt about it.
 
Use System Restore to return to a point before the problem or restore from a
backup you took before the problem occurred. There is a reason why the
Administrator account is disabled by default. It is to be used as a back
door when you run into problems like this.
 
Whatever. I don't think I'm alone when I say that a major corporation like
Microsoft releasing a completely bugged and security locked-down piece of
software like Vista is dumb.

I shouldn't have to spend ages trying to research how to "trick" the system
into giving me full admin rights - if my user is an administrator, it should
be just that, AN ADMINISTRATOR!

And "just plain DUMB" is the best you can come up with? Get a grip, you
utter, utter freakish loser. You'll be starting to say things to me like
"n00b" next. You do realise there's a world outside your bedroom at Mom's,
right?

Vista is a 110% step backward from XP - there's no doubt about it.
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AMEN!

Administrator means ADMINISTRATOR!!! why is that so hard for vista to
understand.

c
 
S7ARBVCK said:
I activated the Administrator account on my OEM install of Windows Vista Home
Premium so I could actually get access to the locations and files I needed to
(I'm an advanced user and a programmer, so I don't need to be nannied by the
stupid - *stupid, stupid, stupid* - security system).

I used the administrator account for a while and everything was fine until
one day I was greeted with the message that "my user profile didn't load
correctly, and I'd been logged onto a temporary account". It then also told
me to seek help from my administrator(!?!?!??!)

I cannot find any way to actually fix the administrator account, and normal
"administrator" accounts don't do the trick as they're really NOT
administrator accounts (I mean, seriously - WTF!?), so can someone from
Microsoft please tell me how to sort this out short of launching the PC
carrying this truly awful piece of software straight out of the highest
window I can find...?

How do I fix the actual administrator account???

Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!! :( :( :( :(
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You can contact MS via email of contact the manufacture if it's an OEM
version.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/techsupport/default.mspx

When you get it sorted, you should make a back-up user/admin account.
 
Leonard said:
If the cap fits, wear it "nOOb"

http://www.computerperformance.co.u...ta_Administrator_-_Super_User_(Hidden_Account
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hi,
I am a newbie. but I have questions on this topic as my laptop had an
Administrator account when I got it. I did create a user and that user
is who I logon as.

I tried what the link above says to do E.G. search for "secpol.msc" to
bring up the local security policies window but what comes up is dosnet,
a plain text file which looked like I should not be in so I searched for
secpol.ms and this came up (2 actually) secpol.ms_. when I tried to
open these, vista said it didnt know how to open it and did I want to
search the web for a program to open it with...I have not done that as I
dont know what is wrong with what I am doing.

hints?

peter
 
peter said:
hi,
I am a newbie. but I have questions on this topic as my laptop had an
Administrator account when I got it. I did create a user and that user is who I
logon as.

I tried what the link above says to do E.G. search for "secpol.msc" to bring up the
local security policies window but what comes up is dosnet, a plain text file which
looked like I should not be in so I searched for secpol.ms and this came up (2
actually) secpol.ms_. when I tried to open these, vista said it didnt know how to
open it and did I want to search the web for a program to open it with...I have not
done that as I dont know what is wrong with what I am doing.

hints?
Click to expand...

The full filename should be secpol.msc. If you're running one of the
Home versions, you don't have the Security Policy Editor.

Tom Lake
 
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