Hello, I´m royally screwed. Basicly I can´t do anything because I have no admin rights. After an accidental SID change (I know I know) I got locked out of my admin account. And since this pc has no other accounts I´m f*cked.
First of all, system restore doesn´t work because I didn´t reboot in days. Second, booting in safe mode to get to the secret-administrator account doesn´t work either because it isn´t there. Now I tried the cmd>net user administrator /active:yes but ironicly this needs administrator priviliges ofcourse. An alternative I found for this was boot in safe mode>Ctrl+shift+enter and type net user... but Ctrl+shift+enter didn’t work and running cmd normally gave me the same no-rights error.
All of this wouldn´t be a problem if I could just type in my administrator password somewhere (which I still have just to clearify) and regain acces but ofcourse since this is vista, my password is useless. Way to go!
The only place where I can type in my administrator password is F8>Repair computer, which leads me to the pre-installed vista setup. Here I can login to my administrator account which leads me to the repair options and I already tried all of those exept the complete backup one. Now the funny thing is this > http://www.jimmah.com/vista/imgs/re6.jpg should be displayed but in my case I miss the cmd option which I need for this solution> What do I do: I can no longer log in or elevate to an administrator account
Now even though I’m sure vista is super-good-awsome enough to make this beautiful traphole on its own I still believe there might be some virus or something at work. My AVG didn’t pick up anything but any suggestions are welcome.
I’ve weaseled my way out of a lot of trapholes before but this seems to be foolproof. Before posting anything keep in my mind that I can hardly run anything, can install nothing and can’t change anything. The only possible ways I see to get out of this, is too use my admin password somewhere, hack my way past the admin prompt or maybe something with safe mode.
The only real option I have left is to reinstall my OS (if I can even manage that) but I really really don´t want to do this since the account I got locked out of contains 100 gigs of precious memories. Please I really need help.
Btw I'm painfully aware my thread looks very similiar to http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/199547-administrator-account-lost.html
But since I'm desperate I'm asking for your help again
First of all, system restore doesn´t work because I didn´t reboot in days. Second, booting in safe mode to get to the secret-administrator account doesn´t work either because it isn´t there. Now I tried the cmd>net user administrator /active:yes but ironicly this needs administrator priviliges ofcourse. An alternative I found for this was boot in safe mode>Ctrl+shift+enter and type net user... but Ctrl+shift+enter didn’t work and running cmd normally gave me the same no-rights error.
All of this wouldn´t be a problem if I could just type in my administrator password somewhere (which I still have just to clearify) and regain acces but ofcourse since this is vista, my password is useless. Way to go!
The only place where I can type in my administrator password is F8>Repair computer, which leads me to the pre-installed vista setup. Here I can login to my administrator account which leads me to the repair options and I already tried all of those exept the complete backup one. Now the funny thing is this > http://www.jimmah.com/vista/imgs/re6.jpg should be displayed but in my case I miss the cmd option which I need for this solution> What do I do: I can no longer log in or elevate to an administrator account
Now even though I’m sure vista is super-good-awsome enough to make this beautiful traphole on its own I still believe there might be some virus or something at work. My AVG didn’t pick up anything but any suggestions are welcome.
I’ve weaseled my way out of a lot of trapholes before but this seems to be foolproof. Before posting anything keep in my mind that I can hardly run anything, can install nothing and can’t change anything. The only possible ways I see to get out of this, is too use my admin password somewhere, hack my way past the admin prompt or maybe something with safe mode.
The only real option I have left is to reinstall my OS (if I can even manage that) but I really really don´t want to do this since the account I got locked out of contains 100 gigs of precious memories. Please I really need help.
Btw I'm painfully aware my thread looks very similiar to http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/199547-administrator-account-lost.html
But since I'm desperate I'm asking for your help again
