Windows 10: Problems with admin rights

Discus and support Problems with admin rights in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; This is my personal computer, there are no other accounts on it and despite my account supposedly being an admin account, I am often faced with not... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Kaylum Dicks, Nov 18, 2024.

  1. KAYLUM DICKS
    Kaylum Dicks Win User

    Problems with admin rights


    This is my personal computer, there are no other accounts on it and despite my account supposedly being an admin account, I am often faced with not being able to install or delete things because I don't have admin rights. This profile is set as an admin, but there is a separate admin account that I cannot get rid of. How can I set this so that I have full admin rights to my own computer?

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    Kaylum Dicks, Nov 18, 2024
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  2. MATT18
    Matt18 Win User

    admin rights keep disappearing!?!!

    Hi guys,

    I am actually having a problem at work that our IT department hasn't been able to figure out. I am supposed to be a member of the admin group. We are on a domain. The problem is that everytime I reboot the computer I loose my admin rights(no longer in the administrator group) and just become a normal user again. I have tried googling this and didn't get to many results.
    I believe IT is just giving me local admin rights, not admin rights for the whole domain.

    Any suggestions?

    EDIT: It is on Windows XP Pro.
     
    Matt18, Nov 18, 2024
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  3. NAMSLAS90
    Namslas90 Win User
    admin password?

    You can reset the Admin Password using Windows XP repair; See Here for step by step.

    *Toast :toast:
     
    Namslas90, Nov 18, 2024
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  4. PETERSIMPSONSIMO
    PeterSimpsonSimo Win User

    Problems with admin rights

    Windows 10 Admin rights?

    I am becoming increasingly frustrated with windows 10, for some unexplained reason the photos app stopped working, the suggestion is to uninstall and reinstall this app, however the system reports that I do not have admin rights to perform this operation!

    I wonder who does, I log into windows as an administrator and could do anything, this is a new problem since upgrading to windows 10 on my single user personal laptop.

    I did find a community post showing the following instructions:

    I request you to follow the below steps and disable in built admin account on the computer.



    • Open Command Prompt in Admin mode.
    • Copy and paste the below command and press Enter.
    net user administrator /active:no

    3.Close the elevated command prompt.

    4.The built-in Administrator will now be available to select to sign into.

    However all I get for my trouble is access denied error 5

    So where do we go from here?

    I am 66 already and cannot wait forever to sort this please help Problems with admin rights ;)
     
    PeterSimpsonSimo, Nov 18, 2024
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