Huge administration problem.
I'm unable to put myself back as an administrator on my user...
My user is a basic user and does not have any privilages really.
I've tried to enable the built in administrator user but to no avail as my

My situation:
* had Vista 5600 (RC1).
* encrypted files & folders with it.
* exported the PFX cert but not the CER

Hello i am a admin of a company who have a open licenses of windows products
and today i checked the http://eopen.microsoft.com and i saw a new download
section and there was a Vista editions for donwload but i didnt find a
install key how to activate my Legal Vista????

We have MSDN Proferssional and I wanted to know how many times I can activate
the Windows Vista on few development machines.
Thank you

Hi, all
Installing Vista for the first time today to play with it. The default
Name+Icon login is something I'd like to get rid of. I've already followed
the online help suggestion of going into the User Accounts and forcing

I installed adminpac according to this article:
http://4sysops.com/archives/install-windows-server-2003-adminpak-administration-
tools-pack-on-vista/
Then I can't use RUNAS to run DNS console with a system account.
If I press Shift key, go to Start, All Programs, Administrative ...

When I use an RDC client to access Vista Ultimate Build 6000, a screen comes
up with an option to login as userid Remote and some password I don't know
and haven't been able to figure out, or Other Users (where I can enter my own
user name and password).  A few questions:

Under Windows Activation in CtrlPanel->SystemAndMaint->System I'm trying to
active windows by clicking the link by the keys.  Nothing happens and it says
I have 0 day(s) left.  How can I get my MSDN license activated?
Thanks,

I am running Vista Ultimate Beta 2 build 5384
I can successfully login with a non privledged domain user account.
I can not login with a privledged domain user account. The message I have
displayed is "There is a time and/or date difference between the client and

I'm running Vista 64bit, and so far everything is just working as advertise,
except for one thing (an important one though)
When I try to login to my bank (TD Canada Trust), I get to the login just right,
but when I click the login (after I entered ID, and password), all I get is ...

I would like to recover from hibernation without having to use a password,
anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.

In XP pressing windows key + L would return you to the main screen with
available accounts. In vista in returns you to an "account locked" screen.
From there you have to press "switch user" to get to the main screen with
accounts. How can one skip this annoying "account locked" ...

My Computer keeps displaying the message 'Administrator has prohibited accss
to CD/DVD ROM drives.'  asthe administrator of my computer i do not remember
setting this, how do i remove this so that i can access my drives ?
John

I have an executable zipped to a selfextracting exe.
When the exe inside that zip file is started the UAC appears.
When I run the selfextracting exe, it extracts the exe inside to the temp
folder and runs it. When in this case the UAC is started minimized. So many

I have been using Vista 5600 RC1 since it came out. No problems whatsoever
with it unti last night. I had a second hard drive that I installed last
night and Vista picked it right up and allowed me to format the drive. I was
doing this for a friend, so all I did was install thye ...