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Windows windows 10 password help!

Discussion in 'Software' started by Carper, 16 Oct 2015.

  1. Carper

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    Hi guys, basically i just bought a new camera and installed some software for it. When i try and run the program i get a screen that says type admin password and click yes but there's no box or anything to type the password and the yes button is greyed out. Im not sure what to do any help would be great thanks
     
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  3. noizdaemon666

    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    Picture isn't working for me. Are you the only administrator on the computer?
     
  4. Carper

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    http://i.imgur.com/yUu0riL.jpg

    have tried everything and nothing is working dont understand really dont want to do a back up as i dont have a hard drive to do this and hassle reinstalling windows
     
  5. noizdaemon666

    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    Easiest way round it is to disable user account control. Are you the only administrator?
     
  6. Carper

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    im not really sure all i have done is installed windows 10
     
  7. Carper

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    theres my name and asp.net machine account
     
  8. theshadow2001

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    What about right clicking it and selecting run as administrator
     
  9. Carper

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    just get the same screen
     
  10. theshadow2001

    theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE]

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    Go to control panel and click on User account and Fmaily safety. Then click on change account type. Under the icon with your user account name does it say you are an admin?
     
  11. Carper

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    cant look at anything all locked out for me. just done a system recovery and all is the same. think I might just go back to windows 7
     
  12. theshadow2001

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    It sounds to me like you don't have any administrative privileges on your account. Im not sure how you could solve it to be honest.
     
  13. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    This seems to be saying the Admin account has been disabled.

    The solution from that link seems to take some unnecessary steps, maybe someone could confirm but i think you would only need to reactive the admin account.

    Start elevated command prompt and type > "net user administrator /active:yes"
     
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    There's an easy way to solve it. Reinstall a fresh copy! :D
     
  15. noizdaemon666

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    The built in admin account is always disabled. Enabling it just allows a user to login with pure unfettered access to bugger things up. Plus, to run an admin command prompt he would need admin privileges, which he does not have.

    Reinstall a fresh copy would be my advice. You can enable the built in admin account and elevate your actual user to admin, but who knows how many other things are broken in the install.
     
  16. Corky42

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    Good point, i guess i wasn't as awake as i thought when i edited my post. :duh:

    I still maybe half asleep so forgive me, but does starting in safe mode default to using the admin account, it's just doing a clean install seems rather drastic for what seems (to me) to be a minor issue.
     
  17. noizdaemon666

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    Again, the in built is always disabled, even in safe mode. That's a very old XP throwback you're thinking of. So what seems a relatively minor issue is in fact pretty major. Like I say it is entirely possible to turn that admin account on, but given something so fundamental is broken, I'd start from scratch.
     

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