Re: Administrator rights

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nscomcast.net)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 00:33:57 GMT

Hi Dan.

You can not "overwrite" the built in administrator account and any user in
the administrators group will have sufficient rights to do any task on the
computer. If you elaborate more maybe we can help. --- Steve

"Dan Landry" <dan@adv-sol.net> wrote in message
news:13c4d01c4445f$791e7e80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I inadvertantly created another administrator account
> which overwrote my original.
> I now have a login with PCName\Administrator.
> The problem is that I do not have admin rights & cannot
> install a new printer due to insufficiant rights.
> Is there a way to bypass this security to reset admin
> rights?
> This PC resides in a home office so I really don't need
> the security.
>
> TIA
>
> DanLandry
> dan@adv-sol.net
>
>
>

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