Re: Administrator rights

From: Dan Landry (dan_at_adv-sol.net)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:56:56 -0700

The only user I have on the PC is
ComputerName.Administrator.
There is no way for me to view or add users without the
admin signon & that user is not a member of the admin
group. I'm stuck as I signed on without any rights to do
admin tasks.

>-----Original Message-----
>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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