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I cannot find my administration key that is needed at the end of my installation of my motherboard. I cannot find the code in the box. Where is it?

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Hi,
Could you elaborate? I have never heard of this... unless you are talking about the Administrator password Windows asks for during install... which you can typically just leave blank and continue the install...

  • R Buschy Jan 31, 2015

    Sorry, also an old post

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Vista - The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be...

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  1. Press Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog box.
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Log in as "Administrator"

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Select the "Administrator" user.

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click Allow.
3) In the Registry Editor, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
4) In the right hand pane, right click the mouse and select New then Key. A new folder should appear in the left hand pane. 5) Name this new key Special Accounts and press Enter.
6) Right click the mouse on the new SpecialAccounts key in the left hand pane, select New then Key again to make a "sub-key".
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8) Double click on the new DWORD you just made, and set the value to 1 then press OK.
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Or this
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