Impossible to run as administrator. Disabled UAC administrator

I recently changed the name of the account from my computer by running netplwiz on windows 7. After the change has been made, I restarted my computer. I realized that the account had changed to a guest account administrator account. I went to user accounts to change the account back to admin. When I click on "change your account type", a UAC dialog box appeared prompting for the password and the 'Yes' option is greyed out. I tried to run CMD as administrator, but the UAC dialog box does not allow me.

My efforts to use the default Administrator account were unsuccessful. I restarted the computer in safe mode and logged using my account (which is always a guest account). I started cmd and typed the command:

NET user administrator / Active: Yes

but I get a system error 5 access denied.

Is there a way I can access administrator privileges? And return my admin account?

Customers can not activate the hidden admin.  You will need to run a repair of the win 7 dvd installation or a clean install as well.

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