Windows 10: Lost Administrators Group Membership

My wife's normally signs in to her computer using her Microsoft account. So as a user on the system she shows up as "C900," which is the model number of the computer.


Her account had Administrators Group membership, but I accidentally removed it.


I'm attempting to restore this membership without much luck.


I have activated the Administrator account but I cannot log in under this account. I can access the command line as Administrator, but Administrator seems to have limited authority there.


Using the command,


"net user"


does not show my wife's account.


Creating an account with Administrators Group membership using,


"net localgroup Administrators NEWUSER /add


seems to create a user temporarily but upon a reboot the user disappears.


I am stumped.


Is there a way to regain Administrators Group membership for this account?

:)

 

Lost administrative rights & Account

Hi,

If you have another admin account you can log into that account and change the permission of the other account. If this is the only account your PC then follow the steps to change account permission to admin.

• Press Windows key + R and type netplwiz and hit Enter.
• Select the account and click on Properties.
• Under Group membership tab select Administrator and click on Apply and OK.

Hope this helps. Thank you.

 

replace device administrator

Hi Aryan,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forum.



You may follow the steps listed below to convert a standard account to an administrator account:

• Login to the existing administrator account.
  
• Press ‘Win + R’ keys together on the keyboard to open the Run dialog and type the following into the Run box:
  netplwiz
  
• Highlight the standard account.
  
• Click on ‘Properties’ and ‘Group Membership’.
  
• Click the radio button for ‘Administrator’ and select ‘Apply’ > ‘OK’.
  

Hope it helps.

 

System administrator and You Tube restricted mode

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

1. Are you using a local account or Microsoft account?
   
2. How many user accounts are there on the computer?
   
3. Do you have another administrator account on your computer?
   

I suggest you to refer the following link to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/174084 for YouTube.

If you are having another administrator account on your PC, you can login to the administrator account and provide administrator access to the user account. Follow the steps mentioned below.

Steps:-

1. Tap on Windows + R on the keyboard.
   
2. Type netplwiz in the run box.
   
3. Under the Users tab, click on the
   user account and click on properties.
   
4. Under Group Membership, select Administrator from the list.
   
5. Click on Apply and OK.
   

Hope it helps.

Sandeep Kumar M

Microsoft Community – Moderator