Well, this is a short and sweet text guide to create a new administrator account on Vista, if for some reason you have no more. This was created for a friend who for some reason deleted every single administrator account on his PC.
This guide has been UNTESTED, and will only work on Vista – not XP.
Following the steps below will create a *new* administrator account on your PC.
if you get stuck, are unsure, or think errors may be showing, I can’t help. I don’t have Vista. Remember: Follow the steps carefully.
It shouldn’t mess up your computer if you do any of the steps wrong, but you never know.
Download this file:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=infrarecorder&filename=ir0462.exe&use_mirror=internap
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This is a 100% free and simple CD burning program, you need it to burn the .iso file listed below
Download this file:
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/backtrack/bt3-final.iso
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This is the CD image for something that can create a new Vista admin account. This is a BIIIGGGG file.
It can take 5 hours + to download.
Instructions:
1. Download the 2 files listed above
2. Install the .exe file. This is the program Infrarecorder, a CD burner.
3. Insert a blank CDR-RW disc into your CD drive, and click “Do nothing” or “Cancel” if a message pops up
4. Open Infra recorder
5. At the top menu, Go to Actions->Burn Image…
6. Select bt3-final.iso and click ‘Open’
7. A window will pop up. Find the “Write speed” drop down list and select something lower, like 28x.
8. Click the ok button
9. The easiest way to tell when it’s done is when it ejects the CD.
10. Once the CD is burned, put it into your CD drive and immediately reboot the computer.
11. If once it starts booting off of the CD, it stops for a while and an option is to press the spacebar, press the space bar
12. Now.. If all is done right so far, text should be flying across your screen like a rabid squirrel
13. After a few minutes or less of text flying around, eventually a background image will appear, along with a mouse saying “<<< Backtrack 3″.
- If no image appears, and you see red text reading “Welcome to BackTrack 3″, type the following w/out quotes and hitting enter after each.
“root”
“toor”
- Now skip to step 17.
14. Now, in the bottom left corner there will be an icon with a pencil and paper. Right click the icon, go to Panel menu -> Add Application to Panel -> System -> Konsole
15. A new icon will appear in the bottom left corner. It is black, and should be the second item. Click it.
16. A new window will pop up.
17. With the shell window open, type the following without quotes and pressing enter after each one
*** THE FOLLOWING ARE CaSe SeNsItIvE
“cd /mnt”
“ls”
“cd hda1″
- If it says that it can’t find it, you’ll have to figure out what it named your hdd.
“cd Windows”
- If it says it can’t find Windows, try “WINDOWS”
“cd System32″
- If it says it can’t find System32, try “system32″
“mv Utilman.exe Utilman.old”
“cp cmd.exe Utilman.exe”
18. Eject the CD and reboot the computer
19. At the login screen do the following:
20. Press and hold the Windows key (usually between CTRL and ALT) and press U
21. A black window should pop up.
22. Type the following into the window without quotes and pressing enter after each:
“net user backupadmin 3MERGENCY /add”
“net localgroup administrators backupadmin /add
23. Reboot your computer and login with the username “backupadmin” and password “3MERGENCY”
… Now. If you happen to wipe out all admin accounts on your computer again, restart your computer and go to step 20
