Windows 10: Disable User Account Control without Admin Rights

When trying to run an .exe i get prompted with User Account Control: Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?

Is it possible to bypass this without having admin user name and password?

I know I could clean install windows 10 but it requires creating a bootable USB and to do that I need to install an app thus running into the same admin user name and password problem.

This is an old work laptop from a business that went under.

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User Account Control

Thank you for the updates, Glenn. Can you update me on what was the result of the full scan? Were there any changes? It may be possible that the account you're seeing is the hidden admin account. Follow these steps to disable the account:

• Press Windows key on your keyboard, type CMD, right-click and then select
  Command Prompt(Admin)
• Copy and paste the command below where in the 'Administrator' is the name of the account you're seeing:
  
  net user 'Administrator' /active:no
  
• Restart and see if the issue happens again.

I'll be waiting for your updates.

 

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

 

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