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Discus and support Lost Windows 10 Admin access in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Hello there. I have migrated my data to an SSD from HDD with Intel picture copy software. I had and HDD Gateway DX4860 before and now I am on HP... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by Johny Doe 2, Aug 20, 2016.

  1. Lost Windows 10 Admin access


    Hello there. I have migrated my data to an SSD from HDD with Intel picture copy software. I had and HDD Gateway DX4860 before and now I am on HP Pavilion 550-126. The new computer comes with HDD, but I have switched to the SSD. Everything was working fine until I have start playing with IE and suddenly the system start asking me for a password to login when the computer was waking up from a no usage state. I have tried to avoid that and played a little with the Admin settings. Now the situation got progressively worse, since I can no longer get Administrative access to anything and every time I encounter that issue the pop dialog is telling me that origins are on the HDD. I do not have the original PC anymore.

    Can anybody suggest a solution to that case or perhaps something I can work with.?

    Thank you in advance.

    :)
     
    Johny Doe 2, Aug 20, 2016
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  2. Lost admin access

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting in Community. I understand your concern, we in Community will try to help you in the best possible way we can.

    I would suggest that you perform the step mentioned below and check if the issue persist:

    Method 1: Change the account to admin.


    • Click on the Start Menu,
      locate and click on “Settings” which is located on the left menu pane.

    • Then click on “Accounts”, locate
      “Family and other Users” located on the left menu pane.

    • On the navigation window, you will be able to view all the accounts that have been created in your computer. Click on the account that you choose to switch to administrator account.

    • You will find the option to “Change Account Type”, click on it. Then you will find a drop down list where you can change the user account to admin. Make the changes to your liking and restart computer.
    Hope this information helps.
     
    Vanessa Sohtun, Aug 20, 2016
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  3. mrmaxbvi Win User
    Lost admin access

    Hello.After upgrading to win10 i created one more account(guest)and now even my own account is not seen as owner or admin.so i can,t acces partition c(the single one)i can't run cmd as admin i cant install or download any program which can help gaining back
    permission i cant restore or whatever.Can you please give me a hand ?Sorry for any inconvenient

    permission over hard disk windows 10- Original Title.
     
    mrmaxbvi, Aug 20, 2016
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  4. simrick Win User

    Lost Windows 10 Admin access

    Hi Johny Doe and welcome to Tenforums.
    You can enable the Hidden Administrator Account, and use that to create a new Admin-level user.
    Administrator account - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
    Probably will have to use option #4.
    Hope that helps.
     
    simrick, Aug 20, 2016
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  5. The problem with that option is I need to boot the Windows from USB/recovery driver and I do not have those. I would have exhausted that option if I had the back up.
    Thank you for the reply.
     
    Johny Doe 2, Aug 20, 2016
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  6. simrick Win User
    See option #1 here to download the Windows 10 ISO, or option #2 to download and create a USB flash drive.
    Windows 10 ISO Download - Windows 10 Forums
    .
     
    simrick, Aug 20, 2016
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  7. Thank you! All worked great. I used the USB ISO creating tool from the Windows link and went thru option 4. I also forgot my admin password and needed to reset, which was tricky as well.
    So how was that done.
    1. After you finish with the instructions above
    2. You start the Windows. Push ALT+CTRL+Del and click on the "Easy access" like clock Icon and select On screen keyboard from the menu
    3. In the DOS window type net user, to see what is your Administrator name. Make that name active AS typing <net user your_admin_name /ACTIVE:YES>
    4. Type <net your_admin_name *> and you can change the password from there.

    Good luck!
     
    Johny Doe 2, Sep 5, 2016
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  8. simrick Win User

    Lost Windows 10 Admin access

    Great! Thanks for posting your steps. I'm sure they will help someone else in the future. Please mark the thread as solved. Cheers!
     
    simrick, Apr 5, 2018
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