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How to lock yourself out of Windows Vista
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Vista’s new User Account Control (UAC) is a great feature that means you don’t need to be logged 
in as an administrator all the time. If you practice safe computing under Vista, then you should be running a standard user account, with limited security privileges. If an application needs administrator privileges - to change system settings or install software, for example - Vista will prompt you…
Don’t authorise it and the application will be blocked. The advantage being that if you run a virus by accident it’s limited in what it can do to your machine, since you’re limited in what you can do on the machine.
However, it’s not without its problems - the main one being it’s actually possible (though highly unlikely accidentally) to lock yourself out of the administrator account for your machine. Find out how, after the jump. How to lock yourself out of Windows Vista » willswideweb
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