Windows 10: I CHANGED MY USER ACCOUNT TO OWNER AND NOW CAN;T ACCESS ADMIN I AM STUCK

HELP ME I AM STUCK.

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Admin Account Accessing Other Accounts

Matt,

And it was careless of me not to ask if you had 'relocated' your user folders. I have also relocated mine to my D drive.

It is possible to manually change the access permissions if you want to do so.
- I did not bother since, like you, my Admin account is also me & I could not see any point.
- There would be some benefit in limiting your Admin access permission if you often use the Admin account whilst online [and your Admin account might therefore be hacked one day - malware might reach every folder that the currently logged-on user has access to]. I only use my Admin account when I'm offline.

If you do want to check/change the access permissions
- right-click on each of your relocated Documents etc on your D drive
- Properties
- Security tab
- Select Administrators [plural] in the list and you'll probably see that you have these set - Full control, Modify
- Just for comparison, select Users\Authenticated users in the list and you'll probably see that you do not have Full control, Modify set for them.
- Check before changing anything that your own username in the list has a tick for all the entries Full control through to Write or else has a tick on Special permissions
- Click on Advanced
- Check before changing anything that your own username is shown as the Owner
- If you decide to proceed, use the guidance in Change Permissions - TenForumsTutorials

All the best,
Denis

 

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