Windows 10: How to change registry when not signed in as admin

If I open regedit and try to add a key, I get access denied. When I then run regedit ad administrator, the current user changes and I cannot amend the registry for the user currently logged into windows. How do I amend the registry of a user who is logged in, who is not an administrator, or how do I stop the registry switching to an entirely different profile, when I give it the admin password?Failing this, how do I make a change in regedit that effects ALL users of the machine, without having to go into every single one of them?

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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?

 

admin password?

You can reset the Admin Password using Windows XP repair; See Here for step by step.

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Forgotten admin password.

Sorry but "Admin account" might be a description. Is your answer to 1 that you are signed in to the built-in account with the username Administrator or do you just mean that you are signed in to an account that has admin status [an account that you have made at some stage]?

The account to select in the list is the one that you want to reset the password to. If that is the one you are signed in to then you'll get that To change your password press Alt+Ctrl+Delete message instead [and the existing password is needed in order to do any change].

You need to be signed in to a different admin user account in order to reset the existing one's password. By the way, you will lose all your saved internet sign-in credentials by resetting it.
- You could create a new password-protected, admin-level local user account {steps given in a separate post below} then sign in to it so you could then use netplwiz to reset the original one.

Denis