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Originally Posted by grady205
It is Windows 7,admin. was the only account on the machine and it is not part of a network.
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- Launch
Local Users and Groups console: START > RUN > (type)
LUSRMGR.MSC (not case sensitive) > OK
- Click on Users
- On the right hand side pane > right-click > new user
- Create a new user
- Double-click on the new user on the list
- Click on
Member of tab > Add > Advanced > Find Now
- Double-click on Administrators to add it
- Back on the Member of list, click on Users to select it
- Click on Remove button
Now reboot computer and once back up, log back on with the new user.
- Open Windows Explorer and browse to C:\Users directory
- Hide the Administrator profile folder by renaming it to something different like
OLD_Administrator (do
not delete that folder)
Now log off and try logging back on with the Administrator account. If it is not visible, then restart the computer in Safe Mode and it should be visible.
I do not advice using Administrator account on a daily basis though. This is just for troubleshooting purposes, OK?
If for some reason you still get the same error, etc. then there is couple of simple steps in the registry that we will have to do but for now, I will skip that step because it may not be needed after all.