How to fix corrupted Administrator account or create new admin account in Vista

How to fix corrupted Administrator account or create new admin account in Vista I have a Windows Vista system whose profile seems to have been corrupted. Many solutions indicate that you create another admin account, log in as that account, and delete the offending profile information for the account that is corrupted.
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"I just had the same issue. After failing to update java from my main account I thought, ""Well, maybe this is one of the programs that doesn't work under UAC"" and tried to log in as the administrator account for the first time in months. Vista said that the profile could not be loaded and returned to the login screen.

My problem was fixed by restarting the computer in safe mode. The admin account was then available. Oh, it complained about a damaged profile and said it was using a default one, but it still let me log in. And then I was able to get into the users control panel, create another adminstrator user, and even delete the existing administrator's profile since there was nothing in it I needed to keep."