Administrator locked out from Windows 7 machine
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Hi all, this is a bit a of a humdinger of an issue. A friend of mine (and I kid you not) decided to punish his son for something he did by blocking his computer use using an application from Piranha Designs called Timemonitor (which in itself is stupid considering that Windows 7 could manage this directly via the parental control). After a day he discovered that his son had an account with administrative priviledges, which he told his wife. His wife then, during lunchtime today, logged in, created an account of her own giving her admin priviledges and removing them from the sons account. In comes the Timemonitor software that effectively locked her out from logging in. BUT the son, the person that SHOULDN'T be able to use the comp, can do so, but without admin priviledges. :doh: So, to make a long story short, how the heck can I help my friend to gain access to his computer again. The machine is running Windows 7 Home Premium and I suppose (although I haven't been able to confirm) that the timemonitor messes with the user logins on Windows and limits their logintime with something like NET USER /TIME etc etc. I guess it would be possible to help him using DaRT or something similar, the issue is, however, that he's 500 km away and all I'm stuck with is Netviewer or Teamviewer to give him some remote assistance. As soon as I try to do something useful, the UAC steps in and demands that he provides the admin credentials, giving his wives credentials it refuses to elevate priviledges since that account isn't allowed to login at this time. Is there ANYTHING I can do? As the schedule looks now, the timemonitor will allow login of the admin account on the comp in three weeks. :~ Any help would be lovely /Jagg
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