Windows 10: I deleted the administrative account

I prefer to log in as a standard user... better security, etc... so i made the administrator account first... then made my standard user account... the computer always wants to log in as the administrator, so i was trying to find out how to change the default user (i'll ask that in another thread or something, i think... that's not the important part of this post)... i never did figure out how to change the default user... so i thought "maybe if i make it so i need to actually type in the user details of the administrator account it will make the only remaining user (my standard account) the default, and i'll still be able to do things with my main account"... so i went and disabled the administrator account... that was a bad idea... now i can't do anything that requires an administrative account...

is there any way to re-enable the administrator account?

:)

 

Deleting an administrator account

Thank you both very much for helping. I'll try and track the old guy down in the meantime - though his name is as common as John Smith (the Danish equivalent, as that's where I live ;o).

A lesson learned!

Thanks again.

Helen

 

Deleting Administrator account

Make sure you have a password set on your original account, and remember it too & also make sure it set up to your liking and most importantly has administrative privileges before deleting your current admin account.

After you delete your current user account you can remove its profile from Control Panel / System / Advanced System Settings at a later date after you are sure you have everything you need with the machines original account & can easily uninstall any
programs that you might not want.

 

Hello Dr. Ivo, and welcome to Ten Forums.

You might see if you may be able to do OPTION FOUR in the tutorial below to enable the built-in Administrator at boot. Afterwards, you could sign in to it to enable your administrator account.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...a.html#option4

Hope this helps for now, *Smile
Shawn

 

worked for me... thank you good sir... also... this is a beta... i'm trying to break things... so far, 10 seems quite stable

anyways... should i start a new thread for my second question (how to change the default user) or just ask it here?

 

Great news.

Yeah, go ahead and create a new thread since it's a different issue. *Smile