Windows 10: I accidentally converted my Admin account into a local account. I no longer have an admin...

I accidentally converted my Admin account into a local account. I no longer have an admin account on my computer. Please help.

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Can a Local Admin account manage a Microsoft Admin account?

. @Tr3: Wow !! Thanks for the comprehensive response. BTW: There was an important sentence missing in my OP. That type of error is gradually occurring more often with me now. It was probably one cause of the Windows reset. I should have said: -------------------------- - Also, up till now, I've always had a second Admin account just in case. I don't recall ever using the second Admin account, so I must be doing something right. After being forced to reset Windows, I currently have one Local Admin account. [I now plan to add a second Local Account for safety. ] Question: If I change the [default] Local account to a Microsoft account, can that account be managed by the [second] Local account Admin? -----------------------

I hope the corrections made above might clarify my plan.

I've started doing that since @dalchina rapped my knuckles here: Am I an Adminstrator ? Will I still be Admin in an hours time? I used Macrium immediately after the reset. Since then, I've been doing Diffs. Each Diff takes only 1 minute, because of the few changes between each Diff. But the changes themselves took a lot longer than 1 minute. IMO, your suggestion to use alternate hard drives for backups is great. My plan had been to use 2 drives with identical contents, but I'm now going to follow your method.

Before the infamous reset, I converted the default Local account to a Microsoft account (my "primary" account). Then I created a second Microsoft account for safety. I then went back to the primary account, and changed myself to a Normal user - as the big boys recommend. I did some stuff. I then needed to be Admin again for something. But I was unable to change myself back to Admin from within the primary account. I switched to the alternative MS account. I changed the primary account back from Normal user to Admin. That final step is what I meant when I referred to "using one account to manage another account". Your post has a lot of other useful stuff that I'm going to implement - with Diffs in between. Thanks for your help.

 

Hidden Admin Account Infected - Help

Somehow my windows 7 hidden admin account got infected. I cannot open regedit, task manager or any virus program.. in fact.. most programs wont work.. but my regular everyday account is fine.

The problem is this: I have been infected in my regular account before.. and running virus tools from my hidden admin account fixes them.. but I cannot do the reverse now because my regular account doesn't have access to my admin account.

I know what the virus is.. its a rouge antivirus.. it mostly annoying.. Programs do open up for a split second before this rouge antivirus program closes it again and then lies and gives me a message that says, " Cannot open this program, the program is infected" LOL

Its putting a lot of adware on my system but not crippling it.. but only in the admin account.

What are your ideas?

 

windows 7 hidden admin account infected

visit safemode, log into admin account. download malwarebytes (or transfer from usb). run malwarebytes. exit safe mode. run an updated malwarebytes on admin account. eat some pie ;D