I accidently made my asp.net admin on my computer and removed my account as admin. The asp is passworded and computer will not reconize the password. and my account is now limited with no admin accesss. How do I resolve this?1 person needs an answerI do too

see if you can use the default admin acct via safe mode. -- db`...><)))> ."gari610" wrote in message news:a5600b77-a090-4fc0-a3be-cb3dda0e48c2... I accidently made my asp.net admin on my computer and removed my account as admin. The asp is passworded and computer will not reconize the password. and my account is now limited with no admin accesss. How do I resolve this?db`...>-)))> `...>-)))> share the nirvana mann

i have tried safe mode, still will not reconize password. am I going to have to reformat to clear this?

You may end up needing to re-install Windows but if you don't mind rolling up your sleeves, you might try the following procedure. You can use this procedure to pull up and install a backup copy of the registry before you changed the privileges and regain control:"How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 >Part 1 is rather risky because it moves what amounts to the original registry into the operational registry in the hopes that this will allow the computer to boot long enough to copy a recent registry backup from the "System Volume Information" folder into the system. This is why this procedure is not recommended for OEM systems. An alternate method is to create a free Live Linux boot CD such as Knoppix or Ubuntu and boot your computer from this disk. If you choose Ubuntu, take particular care to follow the "Try Me" instructions (ie, do not do an installation of Ubuntu). Linux has the advantage that protections placed on the System Volume Information folder do not get in the way of accessing the files there. If you can do this, you can pick up KB307545 from Part 2, Step 6 using the Linux CD to copy/paste/move/delete files instead of the command-line instructions in the KB. If you pick a backup folder in System Volume Information folder dated before you changed the user permissions, this should restore your old username/password/permissions. You will not need to reboot after Part 2, but you will have to remove the CD and reboot the system between Part 3 and 4. After rebooting, you hopefully will have your old permissions back and can do the System Restore in Part 4 also from a date before you made your ill-advised changes.If all that sounds too involved, then the Live Linux disk can be used to back up your files to a USB drive or network drive before you re-install WindowsHTH, JW