Windows 10: Locked out of device manager?

Hi sorry if this has been posted before. But today I seem to be locked out of device manger. I have been using win10 for ages now, and never been unable to access it. I can get there via cmd and typing (net user administrator /active:yes).
But never had to do that in the past. No known changers to the computer have been made except possibly an windows update.

Any help would be appreciated.

:)

 

Locked out of device

I used the wrong password and now I am locked out of my Windows 10 pc. How can I resolve this?

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Locked out of device

Hi Dawn,

If you're using a Microsoft account to sign into your Windows 10 PC, you may simply
reset your password in the
Reset your password page. You can also check
Yashwanth Kotakuri's post from this
thread on how to reset your password.

However, if you're using a local user account, you may need to reset your PC. Apparently, there's no option to recover local user account password. For more information about local user account password, you may check this
support article. To prevent unwanted data
loss, we advise creating a recovery drive using a USB flash drive.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

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Hi, are you logged in as admin or as a standard user? If the latter, you will probably get a warning that you can view but not make changes.

How are you trying to access the Device Manager other than that command? E.g.
a. Windows key + X, click Device Manager
b. Typing Device in Cortana's search box and clicking Device Manager
c. Launching the control panel and selecting Device Manager
d. hdwwiz.cpl in a Windows run box

Do you perhaps have a group policy set to disable access to the Device manager?
How To Disable Device Manager In Windows 10?
Discussion here:
Block access to Device Manager

 

Hi thanks for the response. I've tried A, B &C . I'm logging in as normal and always had administrator rights as it's my own PC. Never had an issue accessing device mangers before. Or any other part of windows for that matter. Seems very strange. Are there differing administration levels of which I didn't know about?

As I say I do have that work around but it's a bit of faff when it should just open without complaint.

I will look at it again tomorrow and try / check your suggestions.

 

I'd also try creating a new user account with admin rights and try from there. Double check your user account (still?) has admin rights.

Have you also tried other thinks like accessing Task Manager? As could also be a sign of virus infection

 

Seems ok today after running spybot and malware bytes. malware bytes only found one pup but that seems to have fixed the issue. So happy dayz again.

 

In fact, there are many so many ways to reset your local users account password, including free ways and paid softwares.
like:
1. the reset disc before you forgetting password.
2. command prompt
3. other admin account
4. from safe mode
5. ntpassword, (Free)
6. ophcrack (donate)
7. LCP (Free)
8. iseepassword(paid)
9. Saverwin (Free)
and more... You can google it and find more..