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Discus and support Change Account Type in Windows 10 in Windows 10 Tutorials to solve the problem; The only thing I can think of its a PC at the firehouse for all users and we don't have a password associated so it logs in automatically. Maybe I can... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Tutorials' started by ezerextat, Sep 29, 2015.

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    The only thing I can think of its a PC at the firehouse for all users and we don't have a password associated so it logs in automatically. Maybe I can assign a password to see if it takes and then after, delete it. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll have to enable the Administrator. I don't like using that one if I can help it, but in this case looks like I might. I'll update with results. Thanks for the help.
     
    wildncrazyguy, Jun 1, 2016
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  2. Sorry its been a while. Still no luck. I suspect the issue is beyond repair. What I suspect is someone used a password reset disk of some sort and changed the user which I want to be standard to some equivalent of the builtin administrator. I get; the standard user is a member of the administrators group and also the user group, but when I try to remove the administrator group from the user, it returns an error such as the user is not a member of the administrators group. It is but it isn't.

    I do have a quick question, in this case, would I be better to attempt to create a new user and treat this one as corrupt and try to replicate it to the new user. I also suspect the state the user account is in won't let me delete it. so maybe I can disable somehow. Sad thing is everything functioning perfectly fine with no issues. I just can't remove the administrator membership from it. Kind of hate to break it trying to fix it. Thanks.
     
    wildncrazyguy, Jul 13, 2016
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    Brink New Member
    If everything is working well without issues, then you could keep the account as is.

    Otherwise, sure you could create a new account to use instead, and delete the old one after copying any files you want to keep from it to the new one.
     
    Brink, Apr 4, 2018
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