Changing account type in Lenovo U330 Thinkpad

I have a Lenovo U330 Ideapad that's running fine until I set accidentally my account to Standard User. I can't change back to Administrator now and it presents me with all those limits in configuring the laptop.

When I go to User Accounts under Control Panel, I can click change account type, I can tick the Administrator radio button and press Ok but nothing happens, the account is still in standard user mode which is very frustrating.

What could be wrong with this?


NOTE: The title should say Ideapad, sorry.

 

This question should be in the Windows forum.

 

ok thanks..

 

First, what happens if you try to create a new user account with administrator privileges from the User Accounts panel?

Second, if that doesn't work, you may have to log out of your user account and then log back in as "Administrator" in order to rectify your account's privileges (if you can't find the option to log out explicitly, it might also be called switch users or something along those lines).

 

I also can't make a new Administrator account. When I try to do so, I am able to do it but upon pressing OK nothing happens, same thing as changing the account type.

I do know how to switch user, but when I choose that option I cannot see any Administrator account, all I have is my standard user account and the Guest account which obviously also has limitations posted on it.

 

Can you switch to the logon interface that allows you to type in whatever user name you want instead of just getting a list of the user accounts the OS thinks you might want?

 

I'm not sure how to do that in Vista. I know it for sure in XP.

Can you give me the procedures for that?

 

I'm in the same boat as you, then, mate. I'm running XP and just trying to figure out the _Vista analog as I go along. According to this webpage, you can enable _Vista's version of the classic logon (i.e., no user names displayed, user must provide both username and p/w) by going Start -> Run -> secpol.msc - it says you have to run as administrator, which might be a problem here, but it's worth a try just in case. Once you run secpol.msc, go Local Policies -> Security Options and click on the policy "Interactive logon: Do not display last user name," and enable it.

If that doesn't work directly from your account, try this: d/l and run the Sysinternals' utility ShellRunAs, which should make it possible to have the ability in _Vista to run things as a different user. With that, try to see if you can use it to run secpol.msc as administrator.

 

I just tried typing secpol.msc and it did not found any program like that. I browsed the net for that problem and I've found out that secpol.msc is not available with Home versions of Vista which is where I'm at (Home Premium).

I'm stuck with this.

Let's say I was able to get the classic logon up and running, what then is the next step?

 

Did you do anything weird or hackish to make your user standard? Because, Vista generally doesn't allow you to make your user standard unless there's already another admin user on the system. In which case... log in as that user.

Naturally, you can't log in as a standard user and tell it to switch that user type to admin... that would be a giant security hole if it let you do that.

 

Nope, didn't do anything like that. I just accidentally switch from Admin to Standard User account, that's it. But AFAIK, there should be at least one Admin for any OS right? Well in my case I can't seem to find one.