Windows 10: add an admin user account

how do I add an admin user account

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Can't add Microsoft Account in activation TAB Windows 10 with administrative user Because Add an account Link is turned off.

We appreciate your feedback. To resolve your concern in adding an account, we suggest that you follow the steps below to add a new user using a Command Prompt:

• Open a Command Prompt as administrator.
• Type net user <username> /add and press Enter.
  
  Note: Replace the <username> with your desired user name. This will add a new local standard account on Windows 10.
  
• If you want the added user to be an admin account, type net localgroup Administrators <username> /add and press
  Enter to promote the standard user to an admin account.

We look forward to hearing from you regarding the steps that we’ve provided.

 

My admin account switched to a user account!

The first of the many diagrams in this thread show that the link Sign in with a local account instead is displayed for the account that is currently logged on and so the reversion procedure might work for this account. For normal circumstances, that would initiate the conversion back to a local account for the user account currently logged in - see my 23rd & 26th September 2016 posts in revert to local account from one converted to MSAccount. I have no way of knowing how Windows will react to an attempt to use this procedure for the Built-In Admin account and I do not know if that link Sign in with a local account instead will be displayed or not.

I think I side-stepped this issue by suggesting that that

• An extra password-protected Admin level account is created, and
• The Built-In Admin is disabled, and
• The recovery attempt focuses on whichever existing user account remains active afterwards.

Personally, I would reinstall Windows 10 without even attempting this recovery. Installation takes very little effort once everything is backed up and the only necessary user interactions are right at the start & right at the end so it can be initiated before making a pot of tea. It took about 30, 60 & 90 minutes for each of my computers [the 30 minuter is 6 months old, the 60 minuter is 7 years old, 90 minuter is 12 years old].

Raner - I am trying to avoid sounding like I am nagging you into doing a clean install.

• Once you have recovered the existing user account you can attempt to re-enable & remove the MSAccount link from your Built-In Admin if that link appears in Settings, Accounts.
• Bree says it cannot be done and I think the same but I have never tried - I have never been able to get to Settings using the Built-In Admin because it cannot run any Windows 10 Apps so I do not know how it can be done [but the diagrams in Bree's link shows that those users got there].
• Even though I have the safety of having created two spare password-protected Admin accounts I would not want to know that my Built-In Admin was sitting in the background but unable to help me if my other accounts were corrupted.

Denis

 

Cannot add another microsoft account.

Hi,

The command prompt net user Username Password /add which you used is incorrect. We suggest you to follow the steps below to add a new user account to your computer:

• Press Windows key + X and then choose Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type the command line net user test /add and press Enter
  after typing the command:

Let us know how it goes.

Regards.