Windows 10: built-in administrator changed to email adr logging into windows store

Hi,

I was logged into the built-in administrator account when I downloaded the NPR1 app from the windows store. In order to proceed, I had to log into my microsoft.com account. The next time I restarted windows, I noticed the to log into the built-in administrator account was replace with the email account name I used to log into microsoft.com. It seems to be the administrator account once I log into it but I think there is some difference as all the drives I had mapped are no longer valid.

Does anyone know what happened and how to reverse it?

Thanks,
Gary

:)

 

How to add another User Account from Built-in Administrator and add Microsoft account to it?

• Go to Settings - Accounts - Family and Other People
• Select Add Someone Else to this PC
• Enter your email details that you previously useed . . . etc., make sure you make the account an administrator account
• When finished, log out of the built in Administrator account and log into the new account
• You should now be able to use the Microsoft Store and Windows Apps

 

Modern apps don't open if the user type is not "Standard"

After enabling the hidden Administrator account typing the following command from the prompt:

net user administrator /active:yes

my usual standard account was changed to Administrator with no reason.

After logging in with the Administrator account, using it and logging out, I logged in again with my standard one.

From that moment I could not run any Modern app because I received the following error message:

"This app can't open

XXX can't be opened using the built-in Administrator account. Sign in with a different account and try again"

Since I was NOT logged in with the built-in Administrator account, there had to be something with my normal account.

I checked and its type had been changed from "Standard" "Administrator". I couldn't change it back to "Standard" because the option was greyed out.

So I logged in again with the built-in Administrator one, changed the other account to "Standard" from the Control Panel and logged out.

After logging in again with the standard account, the Modern apps started working again.

This means there are two problems:

1) The OS changed my standard account to administrator when I enabled the built-in Admin account with no reason

2) The error message I got is misleading if not wrong: the system was not checking if I was using the built-in Administrator account, it was checking if my current user type was Standard or Administrator.

Are the development teams aware of this issue?

Best.

Nicholas

 

You are confusing the special Administrator account with a normal admin account.

The built in administrator account is only for special use.

This account is very powerful, and does not have many of the built in safeguards of a normal admin account, and you can easily break Windows if you delete the wrong thing which a normal admin account could not do.

You can only use a local account on the administrator account.

The administrator account cannot run uwp apps.

So you should never use the Administrator account as your login account, but your normal admin account or else you could not run that app anyway.

You will have to remap your drives accordingly.

 

In a command prompt or powershell run:
net localgroup administrators

What accounts are shown under the line under members?

Code: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\Users\John> net localgroup administrators Alias name administrators Comment Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the computer/domain Members ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Administrator John The command completed successfully. PS C:\Users\John>[/quote] For example, mine shows my normal account with administrators privileges "John" and the built-in administrator account "Administrator"

Then if I run net user Administrator, you will notice the built-in administrator account is not active - it's disabled:

Code: PS C:\Users\John> net user Administrator User name Administrator Full Name Comment Built-in account for administering the computer/domain User's comment Country/region code 000 (System Default) Account active No Account expires Never Password last set 5/12/2017 6:03:51 AM Password expires Never Password changeable 5/12/2017 6:03:51 AM Password required Yes User may change password Yes Workstations allowed All Logon script User profile Home directory Last logon Never Logon hours allowed All Local Group Memberships *Administrators Global Group memberships *None The command completed successfully. PS C:\Users\John>[/quote]