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creating a adminstrator account through regedit

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:48 pm
by Danji
windows 7.

I recently got my password changed by some jerk and I only had 1 admin account, also I'm using a recovery disk and accessing registry editor through command prompt, I can't use system restore and I can't,or system image restore, because I forgot to make restore points :) .

these are the instructions I used--> http://www.howtogeek.com/75470/how-to-e ... -registry/

and this what I get every time I type"%windir%\system32\config\SAM" inside of the file field name--> cannot load x:\windows\system32\config\sam: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Re: creating a adminstrator account through regedit

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:25 pm
by blast
Unfortunately, these forums aren't for general technical support.

Re: creating a adminstrator account through regedit

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:39 am
by joevano
Google is your friend... search for "reset windows administrator password". Let's just say you are doing it the hard way.