How do you enable a disabled Admin Account in Windows 7?

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Does anyone know how to regain access to a computer who's Administrator account was disabled in via computer management in Windows 7? The other users on the computer don't have privileges to access computer management to enable it again and change it, nor do they have any administrator capabilities to change , much of anything. I was able to access CMD in the user account, I type in lusrmgr.msc and it brings me to Computer Management but when I go to Administrator to try to activate it, it gives me this warning "The following error occurred while attempting to save properties for user Administrator: Access is denied."

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W64b63khKoc"][/video]

Will following the steps in this video help any?
 
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This is one of the best methods I know:
To reset a forgotten administrator password, follow these steps:
1.Boot from Windows 7 install or recovery disk and access the command prompt. If you hit F8 while booting you can sometimes see "Repair my computer", click on that, follow the prompts and then choose Command Prompt
2.Find the drive letter of the partition where Windows is installed. In Windows 7, it is usually D: so type D: and hit enter. When at D:\ prompt type DIR and hit enter then look for the Windows folder to confirm you are in the correct drive.
3.Type the following command "cd windows\system32" and hit enter (this puts you in the correct folder)
4.Type "copy sethc.exe sethcold.exe" and hit enter (you are making a copy and...
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The problem is that the other users on the account don't have access to change any of these things, whether using CMD or using Method 2: Computer Management

And to be more specific, theres an admin user, and an Administrator account on this pc, one has full privileges to the pc and the other is the typical Administrator account that is typically hidden in Windows 7. I disabled the regular admin account and the user admin as well. The other users on the pc can't change anything, or download things, etc. I was wondering if I could do it via the instruction of the videos I linked since that gives me access to cmd?
 
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This is one of the best methods I know:
To reset a forgotten administrator password, follow these steps:
1.Boot from Windows 7 install or recovery disk and access the command prompt. If you hit F8 while booting you can sometimes see "Repair my computer", click on that, follow the prompts and then choose Command Prompt
2.Find the drive letter of the partition where Windows is installed. In Windows 7, it is usually D: so type D: and hit enter. When at D:\ prompt type DIR and hit enter then look for the Windows folder to confirm you are in the correct drive.
3.Type the following command "cd windows\system32" and hit enter (this puts you in the correct folder)
4.Type "copy sethc.exe sethcold.exe" and hit enter (you are making a copy and renaming sethc.exe so you can revert this process later)
5.Type "copy /y cmd.exe sethc.exe" and hit enter (this replaces sethc.exe with the cmd.exe file contents)
5.Reboot your computer
6.After you see the logon screen, press the SHIFT key five times.
7.You should see a command prompt where you can enter the following command to activate the Windows password:
"net user administrator /active:yes"
8. This should put the Administrator user on the logon screen. It should not have a password on it so you can go right in and do what you need to do.
 
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