Windows 10: Can't Give My Account Admin Privileges

I'm trying to change my account type to admin. There is only one user, and bizarrely this seems impossible to do.I've tried creating a local account, but there is no option to change the account type.I can't run cmd as admin, or any program for that matter. All of the suggested actions seem to rely on those two points, so I'm not sure how to proceed.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Need help with Admin privileges

That's what puzzles me, I am logged-in as (my username) but still won't give me admin privileges. I checked under control panel/users amd it shows me as a local account. Tried to right click on CMD prompt but the "RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR" doesn't show up

 

Virtual Machine on a flash Drive without admin privileges

so... no go for vpc without admin privileges ?

 

Admin accounts

Yes.

An admin, if they try to browse the user folder of any other user (standard or admin) will be told they don't have access, but will be offered permanent access if they wish by clicking Continue. You won't accidentally stumble across her files, but you could look for them if you were determined. Can she trust you (or can you trust yourself) not to click Continue?

Even signed in as an admin, most of the time you are running processes or apps as a standard user anyway. Only when you try to do something that requires admin rights will you be asked (as in the folder example above) if you want to use your admin privileges. The 'harm' would be if you click 'Yes' on a UAC prompt before taking the time to think about what it is that you'd be allowing to run.