Lost admin privileges

De :  Richard

I am running Vista Ultimate on a Dell XPS laptop. I seem to have lost (my own PC, no other account) administrator privileges. All functions with the shield of little beside them seem to be disabled. For example, I can change the image associated with my account not the name, cannot manage other accounts and can not turn off UAC.

Everything was OK for a few months, but then I had a series of questions that may or may not be connected.

First Sotware Apple update has stopped being able to automatic update software. He would warn me, but I'll be back on the decision to proceed with the download of the program myself to update available screen. I could download and install the software in hand and iTunes isn't mission critical if it wasn't much.

Then Windows Update started having problems. I am informed of updates and once that I ask him to install it comes back immediately with an obscure error code that does not come to the top with an update failed message and error code 800401E4.

Cannot get anything useful from Google and MS Support (free for service Pack1 which I think could have directly behind the issue) have been of no use. They tried to rename some of the software download directories (c:\windows\system32\catroot? and another) who seems to force Windows Update to reassess what has been installed, but still gave the same question once you try to install a hotfix.

I managed at least 1 occaision to download an update and install them manually. I'm also sure that at least one occaision he downloaded a update critical automagically from one day to the next day and installed itself.

These days, I noticed a couple of other questions that may or may not be connected. I think it is perhaps down to my user account lose admin rights and I don't know if it's behind the issues WU. I'm unable to create a new user or change my account or name of one of the functions with the shield of little beside them. I am also unable to change automatic update settings for example download and install automatically when I'm actually on the PC.

By clicking on one of these elements does absolutely nothing - no display on the screen of error/warning/attempt.

I don't know if these two things are related, but would obviously help in fixing either / both of them.

Concerning

De :  Mr. Arnold

What happens if you use this account? It always has full administrator rights.

http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-Windows-Vista/

If nothing else, you can use it to remove your another user/admin account.

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