Windows 10: How to transfer apps from old admin account to the new one without reinstalling

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  1. How to transfer apps from old admin account to the new one without reinstalling


    I made a new administrator account and want my apps to get there. Is it possible to transfer all the settings and apps from the old account to a new one without installation

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    Leonel Senter, Sep 21, 2020
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  2. John Zab Win User

    I can't access my administrator account after i switched from admin to standard.

    Hi,

    if the existing admin account seems to be corrupted, we suggest that you create a new user and transfer file from the old account to the new admin account.

    Here are the steps on how to create a new user account:

    • Open Command Prompt (Admin).
    • Type net user username /add.
    • If the new user account is already created, check if the issue will still persist.
    Transferring user account files from old to new user. You have created a new user account and everything is working fine, the next step is to transfer files from old to new user account.

    Make sure to show hidden folders on your old user account:

    • Open File Explorer, and click This PC.
    • Click View, and see if there's a check on Hidden items.
    • Click View, select Options, and click
      Change folder
      and search options.
    • Click the View tab, and check Show hidden files,
      folders, and drives.
    Here are the steps on how to transfer files from old to new user account:

    • Open File Explorer, and click This PC.
    • Open Local Disk (C, and click Users. Open the name of your old user account and copy all the files.
    • To move it, paste it on this path: Local Disk (C> Users> New user accounts.

    Let us know how it goes.
     
    John Zab, Sep 21, 2020
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  3. Kari Win User
    Multiple questions about installing - transfer accounts etc.

    According to you, the accounts were Windows built-in admin, a local admin and standard user. None of them needs to be moved.

    The built-in admin account, as the name says, will be there when you boot the laptop first time. It is disabled by default, you just need to enable it. For two other accounts, simply create same accounts on laptop.


    Attach the HDD to laptop using an external USB enclosure, copy contents of data folders to respective folders on laptop.


    You mentioned that the desktop accounts were / are local accounts, not Microsoft accounts. See the options to get Pro here:
    If you can still access Windows on desktop, boot it up, make it a Microsoft account and link license to that MS account. Tutorials:
    When done, see this tutorial. It will show step by step what do on the laptop to transfer desktop license to it: Use Activation Troubleshooter in Windows 10

    This article is the best I have seen about when a license transfer is possible, and when not:
     
  4. Try3 Win User

    How to transfer apps from old admin account to the new one without reinstalling

    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
     
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