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Tully

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I tried to set up a new account in Win8.

The whole process of accounts is terrible!

I was logged in as Administrator & wanted to change the name of the Administrator & add a new account.

What I ended up with is a new new account that is the Administrator's & no password to access it.

It asked me to type in my Email address & that was it. It made that the ADMIN account & will not take any of my passwords.

Does anyone have a solution or do I just reload Win8 PR?

I knew something like this would happen, so I never loaded any important stuff.

Why would the system let any change to the Admin account be made?

Tully
 

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There is no "the" admin acount. Any account can have admin privs. "Administrator" is an admin account and the first user also has admin privs available through escalation.

When you say "logged in as Administrator" do you mean that you were you logged into the account named "Administrator" and can you still log into that? If so, you can add a password to your new user account like normal.

I don't think anything really changed from 7 in that regard? Other than the odd new preferred scheme of using a persons email address as an account name :(
 

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  • OS
    Windows 7/8
I don't have any administrator account!

I have 2 standard accounts but NO administrator account.

My administartor account is GONE!

Tully


How could this happed
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 10 Beta
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Assembled
    CPU
    Intel I5
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z&&-V LX
    Memory
    8 GB DDR2 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel on board
    Sound Card
    INTEL ON MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung TD390 HDMI
    Screen Resolution
    1920 X 1080
    Hard Drives
    Crucial MX100 512GB SSD
    2TB Storage
    External Seagate "Dashboard" File Backup Drive USB3
    WD "My Cloud" 4TB
    Samsung Super Write Master 24 DVD Writer
    PSU
    Cosair
    Case
    Corsair
    Cooling
    AIR
    Keyboard
    Advent USB Keyboard
    Mouse
    Advent USB
    Internet Speed
    200 MB dwn 30MB up
    Browser
    IE 11 Win 10
    Antivirus
    MS Essentials
    Other Info
    USB2 & USB3
Well you could have changed the name of the administrator account, you mentioned you wanted to do that but it would still be the administrator account. You can only tell once you are logged in and look at the properties for the user. It may also be possible to actually delete the administrator account, though I've never tried to do that :)

Have you tried logging into either of the two accounts with no password? Just hitting enter at the password prompt?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7/8
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