Windows 10: Can't play certain game unless using Local User instead of Admin main user

So I just got Battlefield 4 for my PC Windows 10, and when I went to launch it it simply didn't launch. Origin the launcher the game is on just minimizes like it's going to launch the game but then comes back like the game crashed or something. Lots of research and experimenting with different solutions later and I finally found one that worked. It said to create a new local user on your computer and launch the game from that user. Turns out it worked, but neither the person who cam up with the solution or the other person it helped knew why it worked, so now I'm just as confused.If there'

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Admin user account changed after streaming game in Xbox from different user account

Hi Eric,

Welcome to Microsoft community and thank you for posting your query.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. Let me help you to fix the issue.

To assist you better, I would like to know are you logged-in using Microsoft account?

Let’s try simple steps and check if that helps in resolving the issue. I would suggest to convert the current user account to the local user account.

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  Go to settings and click on Accounts.
  
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  Click on Your email and accounts and click on
  Sign-in with a local account instead.
  
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  Enter the password, click on Next
  and follow the onscreen instruction to convert into local account.
  

Once you are done converting to local user account, convert your local user account to Microsoft account. Follow the above steps skip step 3 and click on
Your email and accounts and click on Sign-in with a Microsoft account instead. Enter the
password, click on Next and follow the onscreen instruction to convert into Microsoft account.

Hope this helps. If you need further assistance with Windows, let us know and will be glad to help.

 

GPO local admin access for Domain user

Hi,

I have a question regarding the GPO that I created for certain domain user to get local admin access in their computer.

I have created new GPO in domain and do the setting as what I have learned.

They policy I enabled located at Computer Configuration but not User Configuration.

The question is :

If User A have local admin access logon on his PC, are User B or following user able to gain this local access right too when they logon into the same PC?

Regards,

Keith

 

How to Change Microsoft user account to local user account

Hi Pchelpmenow,

At this situation, what I can suggest you is you have to convert the Microsoft user account to local user account.

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  Log to the system using her user account.
  
• 
  Go to settings and click on Accounts.
  
• 
  Click on Your email and accounts and click on
  Sign-in with a local account instead.
  
• 
  Enter the password, click on Next
  and follow the onscreen instruction to convert into local account.
  

Hope this helps. Let us know the result for further assistance.

Thank you.