Administrator disabled and other users vanished after using netplwiz


  1. Posts : 2
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    Administrator disabled and other users vanished after using netplwiz


    Dear all, this may or may not cause hilarity, but I've boxed myself into a corner:

    1. Win10 on my laptop; got fed up of constantly having to enter password.
    2. Googled non-password start and found netplwiz. Unchecked the 'ask for password' box, shut down and restarted - all good - but then noticed my normal user had seemingly lost admin rights, and when doing anything like 'run as administrator' I would be asked for a password - none of mine, old or new, worked.
    3. Booted to safe mode and accessed users, the limited options wouldn't let me change my original user to be an admin, so I thought giving the (hidden) Administrator a password would allow me override the pop-up in para2.
    4. Rebooted and was only offered Administrator as login ID, but when I entered my password I get Your Account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator
    5. I can still get to a command prompt (and my password works with Administrator to get there) and see various users listed via net user, but after playing around a bit and checking Administrator status as active etc, I still get the message above at logon.
    6. I've even tried a Win10 referesh, but want to keep the data, so it's keeping the account status quo.

    Any help much appreciated. Jon
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  2. Posts : 2
    Win10
    Thread Starter
       #2

    I lucked upon the answer; for anyone in similar situation:
    Although Administrator didn't logon in normal mode, it did in safe mode and accepted the password I'd added. Then I went to netplwiz and changed the original user from local to administrator, seemingly taking it out of suspension and allowing a normal logon next time I booted. How, why, etc - no idea, but maybe worth a try for anyone else with disabled Administrator.
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  3. Posts : 10
    Windows 10
       #3

    Im going to lose it .


    I TYPED netplwiz at the suggestion it would remove my user account at login, so i dont have to use the password.
    . but Now i have No access to admin rights.

    WORSE IS >

    I had previously set Account Control settings; dialog slider to the Top , where i have to be notified all the time of Admin permission to run anything, even get into the menus to fix this !!!! . I cant even access that slider in the account controls @



    And the problem now is, it asked for Admin rights. The Yes is grayed out now because i used netplwiz in the searach , i cant even change any settings or get back my admin rights.. PLEASE HELP.



    UPDATE -

    Luckly i had a system restore which was not too far removed . Getting to that, was done with trick keyboard short cuts, that got to restore options on start up. very difficult, I cant recall which buttons got me there, but find out write them down, and never loose that. windohs 10 saver.


    That restored all the info back to normal.

    NEVER use Netplwiz !
    Last edited by John1982; 14 Dec 2015 at 22:56.
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