Safe mode wouldn't give me any extra rights either, all priviledged
operations asked for admin password, but nowhere to type it in.
Ended up doing a system restore from recovery environment to a time before I
did the changes, so at least the system is back to usable again.
Anyway, I had forgotten that Vista never enabled the administrator account
before I did this 'trick' so I really hosed myself.
Turns out the trick wasn't needed anyway, Vista is happy to show
administrator login whenever enabled.
XP won't show the administrator login if another non-hidden user has admin
privs, and user maintenance won't let you drop the last real login to a
limited user so you can get the real administrator login to show. Catch-22,
thus the 'trick'.
"Don Varnau" wrote:
> Hi,
> Can you, in Safe Mode, get to Control panel> Administrative tools> Computer
> management> Local users and groups> Users ? If you can access Users, try
> right-click> Properties> uncheck "Account is disabled" for admin accounts.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
> "SDLSAGINAW" <> wrote in message
> news:FD9D78F5-4C0A-4016-A220-...
> > Did what I usually do on XP: created dummy user w/admin, drop real user to
> > limited, hide dummy via registry. On XP, this gives "Administrator" and
> real
> > user login icons on the login screen - nice and tidy. Not Vista. Still
> only
> > shows lowly real user.
> >
> > Now, I have no way to undo it. Login only shows real user, no admin.
> > Ctrl-Alt-Del no longer gives place to type in hidden user name, all admin
> > operations ask for a password but nowhere to type it. No luck via safe
> mode.
> > From recovery panel, regedit shows nothing I did, so can't unhide dummy
> > account that has admin.
> >
> > Help! How can I (1) edit the registry w/o admin privs, or (2) add another
> > user or activate administrator account w/o admin privs? Machine is not
> part
> > of a domain.
>
>
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