I'm limited to a guest account

tdx622 · Jan 25, 2011

Hi, my name is Tyler and I am new to this forum. I'm having this problem with my Dell Inspiron 530, operating on Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2, 64 bit.
I've tried using the command prompt, the elevated command prompt. I've tried using my Vista boot disc, giving me an error such as "You must be an administrator to install Windows." This is all very confusing to me why this is working for others and not myself :L

I would appreciate if anyone helped me soon. Thank you.

Brink · Jan 25, 2011

Re: Administrator Account

Hello TDX, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Are you logged in as an administrator?

Open the Control Panel (classic view), click on the User Accounts icon, and check to see what type of user account you have.

You will not be able to open a elevated command prompt, enabled the built-in Administrator, or install anything like Windows unless you are logged in as an administrator.

tdx622 · Jan 25, 2011

Re: Administrator Account

I'm a guest
it's the only account I can go on
I'm limited to a guest account and another account thats labeled Other User,
it has a blank picture and does not have a set username or password

Brink · Jan 25, 2011

Re: Administrator Account

TDX,

As a guest, you will not be able to do this. You will need to talk to a user (ex: parents, boss, owner) that is an administrator on the computer.

tdx622 · Jan 25, 2011

Re: Administrator Account

There isn't any other users, recently I used this program NewSID to install a program I purchased and installed called CursorFX Plus. But this program is apparently not meant for 64 bit Vista systems. During the process of changing the SID, I shut off my computer because it was taking much too long. It had been installing for over two days. But before I stopped it today, I made a system restore so I could revert to where I was before I started NewSID. But after I shut it off and turned it back on, all was left was two users, my Administrator account (Tyler) which had been turned into a guest user account. I've been looking through many other forums and websites, I am stumped.

Brink · Jan 26, 2011

Tyler,

You might see if you may be able to do a system restore at boot using that restore point to see if it may be able to fix this for you.

tdx622 · Jan 26, 2011

When I first booted the Vista Dvd at start, I must've accidentaly clicked Startup Repair, but it asked me to do a system restore and I said yes, but It didn't do anything, and it won't let me pick a specific one now
when I tried clicking system restore this time, it said system restore is already in the process?

Brink · Jan 26, 2011

Sounds like something may have gotten corrupted or interuppted somewhere along this process.

You may be better off starting from scratch and reinstalling Vista.

tdx622 · Jan 26, 2011

Is there anyway I can save my music files, I've already authorized 5 out of 5 computers on my iTunes?
Any other solutions?

richc46 · Jan 26, 2011

You can try Ubuntu to save your files
Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer - How-To Geek

It is very far from certain that Ubuntu can save the day under these circumstances. Hopefully, it will give you another way to access your music; most likely you will encounter the same limitations that you experienced earlier. This method should be tried as a last resort, if others do not offer better suggestions.

tdx622 · Jan 26, 2011

Is there anyway I can access System Restore, when I opened it with system restore at boot. I got this message "The System Restore wizard is already running. This program will now exit."

richc46 · Jan 26, 2011

There is no way that I know of. You have major corruption in the system. I think that the best bet would be to try and save your music. You can try Ubuntu, but I have serious doubts since the procedure was to save your stuff when you cant boot, not when you cant get into the account.

tdx622 · Jan 26, 2011

What if Ubuntu doesn't work
will it make things worse?

I've been looking around your forums
do you think bootable Paragon rescue cd would be better?

richc46 · Jan 26, 2011

Here is the problem, if I understand it correctly. You can boot, you just cannot get into your administrator account, probably due to corruption.
Neither Ubuntu nor the Paragon Rescue CD was intended to be used for the purpose that you require. As I told you, when I mentioned Ubuntu, the chance for success is slim and should be used only as a last resort.
The Resucue CD is used for situations when you cannot boot into Windows and not for your current account access problem.
I doubt that either method would make things worse, and neither really has a big chance of success.

Brink · Jan 26, 2011

TDX,

If you have a retail copy of Vista, then you could do a custom install of Vista at boot. It will be like a clean install of Vista, but a copy of your current installation will be placed in a C:\Windows.old folder durring the new installation. Afterwards, you would be able to copy the files in the C:\Windows.old folder back into your new installation.

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