Windows 10: My Admin Account isn't truly admin

Hi guys,

I have a W10 user account attached to my microsoft account. It is listed as a full on admin account. However, with certain tasks it doesn't let me do certain admin tasks.

I wanted to make changes to my hosts file, but was unable to do so. Any thoughts? Thanks.





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The best I can suggest is to make sure you are running the powershell app as an admin. If it truly isn't there, you may have a corrupt windows 10 install.

 

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Right click on a your command prompt icon, and choose "run as administrator". then cd to the folder, and run notepad hosts (it's not hosts.txt btw)

 

Thanks. Is there not some setting that I can change to enable me to change things in these sensitive folders?

 

The reason they're sensitive is to prevent malware from taking them over. If you change that, then you are at risk.

 

Caution as advised but see here: Administrator account - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums