Windows 10: Change user account back to true full admin?

Apparently update 1903 has made more changes than I knew. I use a personal windows 10 account on my aging home laptop that I've had set to be THE admin since it was brand new. I'm the only one who uses the machine, and I'm a career long programmer but haven't done much with local security. However, I just realized that my personal account is no longer a "full-full" admin, it is some kind of dumbed down one, I guess, that may have been introduced in 1903 (I think). It says I'm an admin at the top by my picture, but below that it says I'm a standard user, and will not let me convert to a full admin. I'm now forced to run installs AS admin, which I never had to do before. I know how to do it of course, it's just a pain in the garbanzos.


I did create and make Administrator "undisabled" as it were but it's a "local" account, which I'm not terribly familiar with--I'm not networked except to my Luddite hub's laptop (which I maintain for him). I'm not 100% sure how to use it in relation to my personal account installs etc. What I REALLY want to do is make my personal account the true FULL admin again. Is this even possible now? If so, are there instructions anywhere?


TIA


elaine

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How to change admin user account name?


ah so main admin account is 'wizzle' which is what I am currently on
I make another account called 'wizzle2' (with admin rights)
I sign out of 'wizzle' and sign into 'wizzle2'.
And once signed into 'wizzle2', then I do the command prompt step and find the SID for 'wizzle' that is listed and go from there?

 

Change User Account Admin rights


you've all been very welcoming and generous. However, your suggestions aren't solving my problem.

why can't I - as sole user of this PC - have admin rights to my own machine?





the minute I select Administrator the option to change account type is greyed out.

Perhaps you can't in Windows 10. In that case, it is ridiculous

Thanks again

 

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