Lack the administrator account.

My daughter received a computer laptop opportunity of his grandparents.  She inadvertently deleted account administrator of his grandmother - now there is no admin account and the system will not allow to add a user without administrator.  Is there sort of work around this?  We strive to upgrade the laptop for Windows 7, but we will not, you guessed it... w / o an administrator.

On the login screen, try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del twice.  That should bring in a login screen where you can type the user and the password.  Try typing "admin" as user and leave the empty password field.  Unless the password has been changed beforehand, it should connect you as an administrator.  Then you should be able to create another user (with administrative privileges if you want).

HTH,
JW

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