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Windows 7 Pro all Users diabled or deactivated

I have a client who has disabled or deactivated all users on their Windows 7 computer.  Not sure how they did that though.

Can anyone advise how we should log in at start-up?

If we type in Administrator at login and enter it says it is disabled.  There are 2 other users on that computer but it says they are deactivated.

Anyone know how we should proceed?
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A faster way for next time you see this issue is to just boot the computer into safe mode. The administrator account will then be enabled. Then you can login to administrator while still in safe mode, and create a new user or re-enable the user that got disabled. It's not recommended that you leave the local administrator account enabled; Microsoft disables it by default for security purposes. That's why you must create a new account when initially installing Windows 7.