Comments on: How to Login as Administrator in Vista from Welcome Screen?

By: gabe

gabe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:51:56 +0000

if you people continue to have issues, press F8 on start up to boot in safe mode…. when the welcome screen appears, your admin login will be there…. login as admin (by default there is no password on the administrator account so do not enter one!!!)…. when desktop is fully processed, you need to open the cmd…. in the cmd type “net user administrator /active:yes” (without the quotation marks!!!)….. it will give a message as to whether or not it was successful…. after it is successful, you need to restart once again with a normal boot and your administrator login will be available (as before, by default, the administrator account has no password!!!) Hope this helps!

By: tink

tink — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:04:57 +0000

Having done these steps:
1. Click on start
2. Search cmd
3. Right click cmd and choose “run as Administrator”
4. Type “net user Administrator /active:yes”
5. Press enter

I get a response line saying:
System error 5 has occurred.
followed by a blank line and then another line saying:
Access is denied.

I have verifed via the users section under Manage under Computer that the user id I am logged in as is a member of the Administrators group.

Any other suggestions?

By: welcome_aleksey

welcome_aleksey — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:56:24 +0000

So, how exactly can I access any admin(power) user from Welcome screen, or there is no way.. ?

By: Danit

Danit — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:47:38 +0000

1. Click on start
2. Search cmd
3. Right click cmd and choose “run as Administrator”
4. Type “net user Administrator /active:yes”
5. Press enter

Cheers.

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By: help

help — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:25:18 +0000

Okay, I’m not really good with computers. What do i do once I typed to thing in. Is there a button I need to press? Cause, enter doesn’t work.

By: notme

notme — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:52:46 +0000

Administrator

might from that elevated CMD window type
net user

It will give a list of user names,,, see if the Administrator is showing. I believe I read somewhere that correct spelling and case counts on that account … And allows joey kiddie scripter access without a password once enabled. If you enable and password it and forget, someday you will regret it

By: Benny Boy

Benny Boy — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:29:12 +0000

Make sure you right click on cmd and run as administrator prior to loading it, this could be why it doesn’t work for some of you?!

By: Olli

Olli — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:02:29 +0000

I did that, but it says: Username doesn’t exist !!!

I need to get on to an Admin because of a .cfg file! PLZ help!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:05:29 +0000

also get “Access denied” in Windows Home Vista – I have been using personal computers for over 30 years – Yes, I built my first one from an Altair kit and I have just spent 3 hours trying to login as Admin in Vista and have visted 18 web sites to try to get help – nothing works yet!!!!