Greetings--
I didn't check all of Peter's provided links, however; an added wrinkle to the security system built into the most recent versions of Windows is that the built- in local Administrator account is disabled by default. To do what you need to do, you may need to enable, and log on to, the built-in Administrator account. Here is a link that explains the procedure:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/
I have done this the "hard way" on a couple of occasions using the Linux-based pnordhal [sp?] boot disk, and subsequent operations requiring a local administrator login have worked.
HTH
Paul A. Shippert
School Librarian
Margaret Brent Middle School
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From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:02:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Setting Administrator
Peter, You really gave me some outstanding suggestion about setting my System Administrator. I right clicked on "System Restore" as you suggested and then clicked on "Run as Administrator", but I got the same window about contacting my System Administrator as before, which of course I am not able to do. I also went into Control Panel and clicked on "System" and then clicked on "System Protection" in the left panel and that opened "System Properties" and that opened "System properties" to the "System Protection" tab. The top listing was "System Restore", but at the end of a line stating "System Restore is disabled by your system Administrator", the button after that statement, the "System Restore" button was grayed out, so I couldn't enable System Restore. Beneath that area was a section called "Protection Settings" that listed my Hard Drives, showing that my Main drive "C" was "on" and my "Factory Image" partition "D" was off. Since the "D" drive is for restoring the main drive, that wasn't what I was looking for. I haven't checked out all the links that you sent me. I will start working on them. I can't believe that this is so difficult to reset my Administrator. I shall keep trying, I appreciate the time you have spent on this for me. Please don't give up. Lew
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From: Peter Ekkerman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Setting Administrator
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:47:28 -0500
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