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  Ruckus Registered User regular

  August 2007 edited August 2007

  Fellhand wrote: »

  Somehow I have an XP Pro box that the administrator account does not have admin access. I have no idea how this happened, but is there a way to restore or create an account that does without said access?

  
  Right Click on "My Computer" and choose "Manage"
  
  Expand "Local Users and Groups"
  
  Click on "Groups"
  
  Right Click on the "Administrators" group and add the account that you want to have administrator access.
  
  [edit] Ha ha ha, oh wait, that might require Administrator level access.

  Ruckus on August 2007

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  deke55555 regular

  August 2007 edited August 2007

  If you're talking about the actual, honest-to-god administrator account (named administrator), you should be able to just go into the local settings and give yourself back the godlike powers you are missing. I think you can't lose the administrator ability to take ownership of objects without really trying to.

  deke55555 on August 2007

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  Uncle Long Registered User regular

  August 2007 edited August 2007

  This may be a stupid question, but are you logged in as the administrator? A fresh install of windows will usually set up two accounts, administrator and guest; perhaps you're logged in as guest, see if you can use the "switch users" option and log onto your administrator account. If, for some reason you only have one account and you still do not have administrative access then you should probably look into your account settings and see if you really only have one account or if you have two and you've set to automatically load the guest account.

  Uncle Long on August 2007

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