Windows 10: Can I know if someone has enabled the admin account in Windows 10?

I know theres a way to enable the elevated administrator account in Windows 10 (by using an installer and going to its Command Prompt).

I wonder if theres some event viewer event that would reveal this has been done, such as if somebody has done this then disabled it.

By the way: is there any official event viewer help guide?, what I could google is a bit sparse.

Windows 10, 2004 build 18363.1256

Any help much appreciated

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Enable Admin account

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I suggest you to try the following methods and check:

What is the version of Windows that is installed on the Computer?

May I know how did you reset the PC?

If you need to create an administrator account, you need to log into an administrator account, if there are not administrator account on the computer, you will not be able to create an admin account.

You will have to reinstall Windows, refer this article
How to Clean Install Windows 10 on a PC Step-by-Step
Guide, you will be losing all the applications, suggest you to
Back up data.

Data Loss Disclaimer:

While performing these steps there might be a risk of data loss. You may take a
back up of the data before performing the steps.

Thanks,

Suman.B

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

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

 

Win 10 - no admin account

Hi,

If you are unable to create a new user account, try to enable the in-built administrator account and check.



To do so, follow the steps.

• 
  Press Windows + X. Click on command prompt (admin)
  
• 
  Type the following command and hit enter
  
  net user administrator /active:yes
  
• 
  Log out and sign in to the default admin account and try to add a new admin user.
  

Let us know the results once you have tried these methods. Hope this information was helpful.