administrator your account has been disabled

Its even more difficult if you have BitLocker encryption enabled on your local hard drive.

This of course makes it almost impossible to configure the computer into a workgroup so that it can then be re-added to the domain to fix the problem. The built-in administrator account is disabled by default in Windows Vista on new installations. The problem is that the local administrator account is now disabled and due to the new behaviour of the account you can no longer log with it using safe mode. re-join the computer to the domain) when the AD computer account has been reset or deleted or the password has become out of sync and you get a workstation trust relationship issue (see below).

The most common scenario you need to do this is when you need to troubleshoot domain account issues (e.g. This presents some challenges as IT administrator as sometime you still need to ability to logon to a computer using the local administrator. On domain joined computers, the disabled built-in administrator account cannot logon in safe mode However this behaviour has change since Windows Vista (and 7) and now you are no longer able to logon to a computers local administrator account if it is disabled (see Built-in Administrator Account Disabled ). To log on to Windows by using the disabled local Administrator account, start Windows in Safe mode. Back in the days of Windows XP IT administrators could disable the local administrator account on domain joined computers but still be able to use the account if they rebooted the computer into safe mode (see How to access the computer after you disable the administrator account ).

Administrator your account has been disabled