Windows 10: No longer have an active active administrator account

Hi all,


For reasons I can't understand, my local account on my Windows 10 PC which is not on a domain is no longer a member of the local administrators group it definitely used to be. The only account that is a member of the administrators group is the Administrator account, which is disabled.


I therefore can do nothing to manage my own computer.


Does anyone have any ideas on how I can enabled the administrator account, or re-enable my own account's administrator access, given that I currently cannot log on with any account that currently has administrator access.


Thanks.

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Administrator account - incomplete activation


Hi,
I tried to activate my Administrator account on a Win 10 HP Envy 700-414.
I did this because I thought it would help me delete some folders/files from a local network external hard drive.
These file were created by a Vista machine that I no longer have. I get access denied when I try to delete them. I can not change the owner or the permissions on properties > security
The attempt to activate the Administrator account went horribly bad.
It was partially created with only the recycle bin on the desktop. I had to do Ctrl Alt Delete to get back to my regular account. I did not capture the error messages - my mistake - and I can't find them in event Viewer. I don't know what log to search.
Activation was by dos cmd :
Net User Administrator/active:yes
Since it was bad I followed with:
Net User Administrator/active:no
The administrator account was not completely deactivated.
Is there a way that I can undo the mess that I made and get the administrator activated correctly?
Thanks

 

Administrator account - incomplete activation


I know it's a little bit late to ask - but why did you feel the need to activate the built-in administrator account? Don't you already have an account set as administrator on the computer? You have to, because, to my knowledge, only an administrator can activate the built-in administrator account unless booted into safe mode where the built-in administrator account will be activated automatically if there is no other account set as administrator on the computer.

The built-in administrator account named administrator has no extra powers or privileges that a user account set as administrator does not have.

 

Important W10 activation key questions left unanswered by Microsoft

Yup! I saw it in there this morning. I really like this new activation route they have gone so far. Super easy to maintain.