Windows 10: Added an adult user to my account, now showing it is both Administrator and child account

Hope the title wasn't confusing. I added my son on my pc, as an administrator. However when I changed it from a child account to an administrator account, it now says he is both an administrator and a child. He is 30 y/o, he's not a child. When I was going through the options to create the account I used "Add a family member", not "Add a child account". But it originally showed up as a child account. So did I do something wrong, or is Windows just screwed up again?


Wouldn't administrator and child accounts cancel each other out. I mean everything the child account blocks the administrator allows, and the other way around. So is he going to be able to do what he wants needs to do, or will the child account designation block him from doing administrative things. Will the child account block his web surfing and such?

How do I take the child designation off his account?


Also an unrelated question, when I go into the Family and Other Users section, it says that my account can't sign in, but I'm signing in every day, multiple times a day, so why does it say that?

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Changing Adult Account to Child Account

Hi Peter,

To rectify your issue in converting an account from child/teen to an adult, we suggest that you try these steps and see if it helps.

• Press Windows key + I to open Settings.
• Click Accounts.
• Click Family and other users on the left pane.
• Select the adult account and click Change account type.

In addition you may also check this
Forum article to know more details about Family Safety: Frequently Asked Questions.

Let us know how that turned out for you.

 

Does a child account automatically become an adult account?


How does a child account become a normal adult account? Is this something that happens automatically at a certain age? Or do I as head family account holder have to initiate something?

The reason I ask is because trying to use Edge on a child account is proving tiresome. Despite deleting my son's child account and re-creating it we are launching Edge and it is taking from anywhere between 10 seconds to a minute to become usable. When I say useable I mean the ability to surf, the actual browser is launched and you can go into settings etc BUT no web pages will load despite even typing web addresses in. It's as if Edge is waiting for MS server side to give it some kind of approval before it will allow any web activity. Once it's up and running it's fine but closing the browser session and relaunching Edge will bring back the long delay. Our adult accounts have no such issue using edge. Trying Mozilla Firefox on the child account also poses no such problems. We have no child restrictions setup online for the child account. So really he should be able to use Edge freely. But I feel the activity monitoring is somehow stifling the ability to use Edge.

If it doesn't improve I feel like abandoning the child account and just having him use an adult account instead. At least then Edge will start working quicker. But how does one convert child account to adult account. Or do we have to wait several years for his age to tick over?

Cheers,
Wayne

 

Adult account listed as child. Child account listed as adult.

I want to change my child account into my adult account.

In truth, there is no child. Both accounts are my adult account. I had not a clue when creating accounts or even know I was creating them. Now I know, the email account I've had since before microsoft bought Hotmail, has always been my primary account.
On an old computer some computer generations ago when microsoft was being excessively obnoxious and insisted on having me "log in", I opened a different account to 'sign in' with. Now I see how totally screwed up things are viewed from microsoft's perspective,
I thought I ought to fix it before something massively ridiculous and nightmarish happens.

I don't care that I have and adult and a child account. But the adult account is the one I signed up for arbitrarily several computer generations ago and I've lost the password at least twice and suspect there may even be another email attached to that
one that I never use. I just want to fix it. If I delete the adult, which is actually the child, I'm confident microsoft could never fix it in my lifetime and I'll be stuck changing the email account I've had since before microsoft bought it in order to
try to fix something that seems to me to be so simple.

It isn't about any category. I is microsoft accounts. You're nagging me that I have family, which is how I figured out how screwed up your records about me are.

Is there hope? I hope that any replies will go to the real adult, which is listed as a child...