Windows 10: Administrator Account

One of our user changed their administrator account to a local account. I'm trying to change it back to an administrator account, but you are always asked to sign in as the administrator. Kind of like a catch 22 situations -- does any one have a suggestion?

Thanks,


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How to correct misspelled name on Windows 10?

For those who don't see the "rename" option, it wouldn't work even if you saw it, if you're logged in as yourself (the folder would be in use). However, I did this for a user whose name was misspelled and now he gets a profile error ("can't sign you in,
you've been signed in with a temporary profile") each and every time he logs in. There must be a solution other than his living with a misspelled name! Please advise, thank you.

 

Administrator account

In this forum we regularly deal with questions from users whose one and only admin account went bad. They are in the same position as someone who has a single house key but no spare key. The risks are obvious, hence having a spare admin account is an excellent
idea. If you now delete your old admin account then you might come to regret it.

To gain full access to your old profile folder you need to seize ownership of it then give yourself full access rights - see here:

Take Ownership of a File or Folder

File and Folder Permissions

 

Welcome to the forum.

You would have to promote the account while using another admin level account, such as the built in Administrator account. A standard account cannot promote itself to admin level. The ability to do that would largely nullify the purpose of having standard accounts.

 

I've found ways to turn on the hidden administrator account, but to do that you have to be an administrator.

 

Hello Floki, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

You might see if you may be able to use OPTION FOUR in the tutorial below to enable the built-in Administrator at boot.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

Hi Brink -- I found those options out on the web and I did try #4 -- it failed as well.

 

At what step did it fail?

 

When I tried to do the Load Hive it required an administrator.

 

Did you boot from installation media to open a command prompt from at boot?