If you haven’t got another admin account, you need to enable the hidden Administrator account.
Boot into safe mode as above.
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On the “Troubleshoot” screen, click the “Advanced Options” button.
On the “Advanced Options” page, click the Startup Settings” option. In Windows 8, this option is labelled “Windows Startup Settings” instead.
And finally, now that you see what we meant by “hidden,” hit the “Restart” button.
You’ll see a version of the familiar Advanced Boot Options menu. Press the number corresponding to the startup option you want to use (i.e., press the 4 key for regular Safe Mode).
Click Start, type ‘cmd’, then right-click Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator. In the command prompt type:
Net user administrator /active:yes
Hit Enter and you should see a message that says, “The command completed successfully”.
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