Administrator login - can't find in Vista

Take a look at this:

 

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001970

 

Let me know if this helps!

the first account you created should be an administrator account

 

what account are you using now?

Go to Start, Control Panel, User Accounts and Family Settings (assuming you're using Category View/Control Panel Home).  If you're using Classic View in Control Panel, double-click on User Accounts.  That will tell you how you're currently logged on.  If you're the first/original user of the machine with Vista installed on it, you are automatically an administrator.  Not sure what error message you're getting...is there any way you could post exactly what the error message says?  Could be that the program just wants you to log off and log back in.  Can't really say if I can't see the error message or don't know what it says.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Jess

Easiest method I've seen is outlined in this newsgroup post:

 

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/browse_thread/thread/af3e8b82024cac5e/

 

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Click the start button > Type in the following

cmd

Hold down 'ctrl' and 'shift', before pressing enter

Then enter or paste in this command

net user administrator /active:yes

Then log out and you should see the account appear.

Or you can just Right Click the App and "Run As"......Choose Administrator and the appropriate password.