[poddy]

Hi-my son loves to mess about with computers, which I encourage-however he has deleted all user accounts except one account (he said he was trying to free up memory), which is named Guest and has (so it says) administrator rights. PC works fine but I now want to add a new wireless printer but it says I need administrator rights! I am the only user and the profile has administrator status.

Anyway-tried to add new user and get message 'The specified account names is not valid, because account names cannot contain the following characters ^[]":;|<>+=,?*'

After doing some google searches have tried many times to add another user via the CMD prompt, but I always get 'System 5 error, access denied' even when I run as administrator, with UAC disabled.

Am I stuffed or is there a solution-which I can't seem to find on the net.

Help!

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Hello and welcome to GeeksToGo.

How are you running CMD? You need to right click and run as administrator.

[kenta09]

Hello and welcome to GeeksToGo.

How are you running CMD? You need to right click and run as administrator.

[fyrfyter33]

Which version of Windows is it? You can probably still boot to safe mode using F8 on startup to access the hidden Administrator account, and add the other accounts in from Safe Mode.

[poddy]

Thanks both-was running as administrator and think I tried just about everything. In the end I took the plunge and re-bboted via the recovery CD and now all working fine. Took me half a day to back everything up though!

Thanks for your time.