Windows 10: Administrator disabled and other users vanished after using netplwiz

Dear all, this may or may not cause hilarity, but I've boxed myself into a corner:

1. Win10 on my laptop; got fed up of constantly having to enter password.
2. Googled non-password start and found netplwiz. Unchecked the 'ask for password' box, shut down and restarted - all good - but then noticed my normal user had seemingly lost admin rights, and when doing anything like 'run as administrator' I would be asked for a password - none of mine, old or new, worked.
3. Booted to safe mode and accessed users, the limited options wouldn't let me change my original user to be an admin, so I thought giving the (hidden) Administrator a password would allow me override the pop-up in para2.
4. Rebooted and was only offered Administrator as login ID, but when I entered my password I get Your Account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator
5. I can still get to a command prompt (and my password works with Administrator to get there) and see various users listed via net user, but after playing around a bit and checking Administrator status as active etc, I still get the message above at logon.
6. I've even tried a Win10 referesh, but want to keep the data, so it's keeping the account status quo.

Any help much appreciated. Jon

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Sign on screen shows 2 users but mine in the only account on there.

ok, try a different way.

click start, type netplwiz

right click on netplwiz and select run as administrator

click the advanced tab

under advanced user management click the advanced button

in the left pane select Users

in the right pane right click on Administrator and select properties

look for and check Account is disabled

click apply and OK

note: you should see some other (built in and disabled) accounts such as guest and default account, this is normal and they should be left alone.

 

User account

When I boot my pc, at log in page it shows that administrator has been disabled and then it shifts to another log in window where ony two users are visible one which is administrator account which was changed to standard account using netplwiz and other
account is guest account.Also in netplwiz there was another user account homegroup user which i had given all administrative privileges.

I tried to enable administrator by opening command prompt from the option recovery in settings and when i gone for command prompt option a window came where i had to enter the password of homegroup user then there comes command prompt window, when i tried
the command you have told previously,it shows command completed successfully.But when i restarted my laptop it again shows that administrator disabled.

 

I lucked upon the answer; for anyone in similar situation:
Although Administrator didn't logon in normal mode, it did in safe mode and accepted the password I'd added. Then I went to netplwiz and changed the original user from local to administrator, seemingly taking it out of suspension and allowing a normal logon next time I booted. How, why, etc - no idea, but maybe worth a try for anyone else with disabled Administrator.

 

I TYPED netplwiz at the suggestion it would remove my user account at login, so i dont have to use the password.
. but Now i have No access to admin rights.

WORSE IS >

I had previously set Account Control settings; dialog slider to the Top , where i have to be notified all the time of Admin permission to run anything, even get into the menus to fix this !!!! . I cant even access that slider in the account controls @



And the problem now is, it asked for Admin rights. The Yes is grayed out now because i used netplwiz in the searach , i cant even change any settings or get back my admin rights.. PLEASE HELP.*cry



UPDATE -

Luckly i had a system restore which was not too far removed . Getting to that, was done with trick keyboard short cuts, that got to restore options on start up. very difficult, I cant recall which buttons got me there, but find out write them down, and never loose that. windohs 10 saver.


That restored all the info back to normal.

NEVER use Netplwiz !