Windows 10: Turn all administrative accounts into normal ones

Discus and support Turn all administrative accounts into normal ones in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Hi, is there a way to convert administrative accounts on 8 of my PCs into normal accounts? Without registry or gpedit.msc access. But they are... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by lolcocks, Oct 28, 2015.

  1. LOLCOCKS
    lolcocks Win User

    Turn all administrative accounts into normal ones


    Hi, is there a way to convert administrative accounts on 8 of my PCs into normal accounts?
    Without registry or gpedit.msc access.

    But they are currently the only administrative accounts on these PCs.

    How do I achieve this?
    I want the data in My Documents and Desktop to remain as it is for these accounts.

    Please help.

    :)
     
    lolcocks, Oct 28, 2015
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  2. JONATHANMAYBURY
    JonathanMaybury Win User

    Can no longer log-in as administrator after Windows 10 Update

    I think I'm in the same boat, It is not the online account that is the problem, it is the internal administers account password that is the problem, how can we fix that?

    I don't know if it's because of the latest build, or that I am using the wrong password, but I have tried them all with no luck.

    my problem started with One Disk no longer loading as administrator, so a Microsoft tec tolled e to swap my administrator account to a normal account... so I did, I changed my administrator account to a normal one, but now I can no longer upgrade anything as
    it keeps asking for my administrator password, which it will on longer accept. this looks like a catch 22, as my administrator account is now a normal account.
     
    JonathanMaybury, Oct 28, 2015
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  3. ZIGZAG3143 (MS -MVP)
    ZigZag3143 (MS -MVP) Win User
    Built-in Administrator Can't open anything at all

    The built in administrative account is jsut for administrative functions. You can not use it as a normal administrator account. The built in administrative account is the one that is enable by using netuser not the one you made when you first configured
    the computer.
     
    ZigZag3143 (MS -MVP), Oct 28, 2015
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  4. LX07
    lx07 Win User

    Turn all administrative accounts into normal ones

    On each PC go to Settings > Accounts > Family & Other Users.

    You don't want to get stuck without an Administrator account so first make a new local administrator account (called Admin for example). To make life easier you can make the password the same on all the PCs and not tell anyone what it is.

    Sign off and then into the new Admin account you just created and change any other existing accounts on the PC to standard user in the same place in settings. Their data and documents will be unaffected.


    Turn all administrative accounts into normal ones [​IMG]


    There are some tutorials here if it isn't clear.

    User Account - Add in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
    Account Type - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
     
    lx07, Oct 28, 2015
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  5. LARRY
    larry Win User
    Open an administrative Command Prompt and run the following command to convert an admin account to a standard account.
    Code: net localgroup administrators lolcocks /delete[/quote] Replacing lolcocks with the name of your actual account.
    Remember that the built-in Administrator account could not be changed to standard account by any way.
     
    larry, Oct 28, 2015
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  6. LOLCOCKS
    lolcocks Win User
    Thank you, that was helpful.
    And how do I disable registry access to the normal account?
    I am using Windows 10 Home Edition on half the PCs and it doesn't have Group Policy Editior. Is there any other way?
     
    lolcocks, Oct 30, 2015
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  7. Brink
    Brink New Member
    Brink, Oct 30, 2015
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  8. LX07
    lx07 Win User

    Turn all administrative accounts into normal ones

    A standard user can change only the HLCU (current user) registry hive and can only view the others. Depending what you are wanting to restrict this may be enough.
     
    lx07, Oct 30, 2015
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  9. LOLCOCKS
    lolcocks Win User
    Thank you, Brink. Let me know the next time you visit your planet, I would like to visit, but I don't have my own ride. *Smile


    Okay, thanks.
     
    lolcocks, Apr 5, 2018
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