Solved How to Bring the Admin Login option on the welcome screen in vista home premium

[abhyro]

Hi All

I am using a Dell XPS 1330 machine running Vista Home Premium.
I needed to replace some files(tcpip.sys,tcpreg.sys etc)in the system 32 folder with their new versions. But Vista wont let me copy them to the destination folder(system 32) citing admin reasons.

Read a bit and found out that "Administrator" account is by default disabled in Vista.
So ran the following 2 commands from command prompt to enable Admin account and set the admin password.
net user administrator password
net user administrator activate:yes
After that logged off and was expecting to see the admin login option on the welcome screen. But it didnt come.

Actually in the control panel user accounts I can see myself as Administrator....but I guess that is some administrator with limited powers and there is a greater/stronger/divine/all-conquering "Administrator" above this crappy admin category to which I right now belong and which Microsoft has due to some inexplicable reasons kept undercover. So plz plz help me and lemme know how to get that all-conquering admin to come on my welcome screen so that i can log in and try out what I want.

Best Regards
Roy

 

[Brink]

Hello Roy,

This tutorial below will show you how to activate the built-in administrator account in Vista instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[theog]

Hi abhyro

Have a look at this tutorial:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html?ltr=A

 

[abhyro]

Hi Guys

Thanks a lot...was able to create the admin account and copy files.

Actually the core problem I am facing is connecting the internet with my dell machine running vista. I cannot connect and the network icon shows limited access. On a diagose & repair I get the message
"Unplug or disable one of the active connections". I can also see an unidentified network....not sure what that is.Tried restarting the ethernet card...but no results Moreover its NOT a hardware issue coz internet connectivity is fine when I am in linux(I have ubuntu linux installed on ma machine).So it looks to be a vista issue

Did some reading and found that many people have faced this with vista. One guy had tried out replacing some tcp files in system32 folder and he reported it was working fine and few more ppl had benifitted from his advice.He had provided the files and thats wat I was trying to copy when I got stuck with the admin thing.
Hav snapshot of the connectivity problem. I can share it if required...lemme know if it can help further debugging. Plz provide inputs...

Best Regards
Roy

 

[Brink]

Roy,

It sounds like you may need to take ownership of the files in the System32 folder and allow yourself "Full Control" permission first.

 

[abhyro]

Thanks a lot Shawn...

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Roy.