Windows 10: How Do I Access Admin "privileges" on the PC I OWN.

I am unable to access network settings on Windows 10 PC. I am trying to access music files over my network and on the PC I get the "Windows cannot access \\MEDIASERVER\Music" message advising me to contact me network admin. Which is humorous. I guess. I have tried editing settings in Control Panel, tried editing netplwiz, services.msc and appwiz. Have rebooted a dozen times and continue to be stiffed for access. Help?

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Cannot access admin privileges

Welcome to TenForums @tigerlady

First we need to find out if you have any administrator accounts available to use. You can find this out even if you are signed in as an ordinary user.

Open a Command prompt or a Powershell prompt. Type the command net localgroup administrators which will list all the local accounts that are admimistrators on the PC, whether enabled for signing in or not. Post the results here, as a screenshot if you like.This is how my PC looks, I have four administrator accounts including the built-in Administrator.







For each name listed, type the command net user <username> to see if it's enabled or not. For example, the command net user administrator shows for the Administrator account on my PC that it is not enabled, saying "Account active: No".

 

Virtual Machine on a flash Drive without admin privileges

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Cannot access admin privileges

Thanks for the quick responses.

After trying net localgroup administrators there are two accounts listed: Administrator and my normal username (which I'll refer to as MyLastName). My family always uses the same account, so there are no other accounts on this machine.

After trying net user <username> on each of these accounts, the Administrator account is NOT active, but MyLastName is. Here is the screenshot for MyLastName: