Webuser Forums: Lost admin account

appear to have disabled or lost my administrator account while trying to remove the need for a username and password at startup.
I can now only get in with a limited account

This is what I did

''Well, I can sure understand one getting tired of entering the username and password at startup and to disable this feature then I suggest she go to start>then click run and in the space type in

control userpasswords2

click ok

..... I believe a popup will appear called User Accounts and when this does, UNCHECK the "user must enter a user name and password to use this computer" That should do it and reboot and hope this works.''

Have tried this but am told 'you don't have authority'

''Start in Safe Mode (tap F8 when you switch on) then Start > Run and type “control userpasswords2” (type the space but not the quotes), click Properties against your name and make yourself an administrator. Reboot.''

Help please

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