Windows 10: Account shows it has administrative rights, but cannot do certain functions

I have Windows 11 and my user account is is an Administrator account.I Wanted to change the label name on my C drive and got the following message:You will need to provide administrator to rename this drive.When I click on the Continue button with the shield inside of it, nothing happens.How do I check to make sure my account DOES indeed have Administrator rights?I can provide additional informations as needed.Thank you.

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Weird account name and lost Administrator rights.


Well, I know what I would do.

Under Settings, Accounts, Family & other users, then under Other users, add someone else to this PC. Then click the link for "the person I want to add doesn't have an email address". Then click the link for "Add a user without a Microsoft account". Then enter a temporary user name like TempAdmin. When the account appears in the Other Users list, click on it. Click change account type. Make the temporary account an Administrator.

Log in as the temporary administrator account, and copy all the files you want to keep from both the Andrius folders under Users to the temporary account's folder. Then delete whatever Andrius users are listed under settings, accounts. Go back to the Users folders and delete any remaining Andrius folders in there. Reboot the computer, log in as the temporary administrator and recreate an Andrius account using the exact same steps you made the temporary account - you can convert it to a Microsoft account if you want later.

Then do the rest of the steps to copy all your files back and delete the temporary administrator account.

 

Main Account (administrator rights) disappeared from login screen

I deliberately avoided suggesting the procedure that I would have suggested for anybody else because I do not know anything about domain user accounts.

But this procedure does take you step-by-step through the whole job so perhaps it is worth trying.
Fix UAC prompt has greyed out or missing Yes button - TenForumsTutorials
- The procedure does include a check of whether or not you need to follow the Enable or Disable Built-in Elevated Administrator Account - TenForumsTutorials and Open a Command Prompt at Boot - TenForumsTutorials route instead so you will not end up stuck up a blind alley.
- Because I know nothing about domain accounts, I am not certain that the account with the username "Administrator" will appear in your Safe mode. I cannot think why domain setups would differ in this respect, it's just that I don't know.

Any questions at all, just post back here.

Denis

[Notes for afterwards - system images, check activation, identify all user accounts]

 

Administrator Rights

We suggest creating a new local user account and delete the previous account. Check the article below and follow the steps given.

Create a local user account in Windows 10

Follow the steps below to delete user account.

• Press Windows + X, select the Control Panel.
• Click User accounts.
• Click Manage other account.
• Enter administrator account password if prompted.
• Click the account which you want to delete.
• Click Delete the account.
• Restart PC.

Let us know how it goes.