Windows 10: Turn on/off touch screen without administrator privileges

How to turn on/off touch screen without administrator privileges? reason being you can on/off touch screen in device manager but you must have admin privileges and I have a computer that needs to be able to ton/off touch screen without having access to admin privileges. So how do I do this?

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Turn off Administrative priviledges period

Hi William,



To assist you better, I suggest you to answer the below questions.

• 
  Are you trying to remove the administrative privileges from the user account through which you have logged in?
  
• 
  Do you have any other user account with administrative privilege?
  

If yes, I suggest that you try the steps below and check if it helps:

• 
  Press Windows
  key + R key and type netplwiz, press Enter key.
  
• 
  Select the user account
  (on which you want to remove the administrative privilege).
  
• 
  Click on Properties.
  
• 
  Click on Group Membership tab and
  check on Standard.
  

Hope the information helps. Kindly write back to us for further assistance on Windows. We will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Loss of administrative privileges

Hi Christine,

As a workaround, we suggest that you perform the troubleshooting steps given above after entering Windows Recovery Environment on Windows 10. Kindly follow the steps below on how to enable the Administrator account using Windows Recovery Environment:

• Press and hold the power button on your PC until it powers off. Press the power button on your PC to turn it on.
  
• A Windows logo screen or a Please wait screen will appear on the screen after repeating a force shutdown for three times.
• The system would enter advanced recovery interface. Click Advanced options to enter Windows Recovery Environment.
  
• In Windows Recovery Environment, click Troubleshoot
• Under Advance options, click Command Prompt.
• On the Command Prompt window, type in net user and press
  Enter. It will display the list of all user accounts on the system.
  
• To activate the inactive Administrator account, type in the command:
  net user administrator /active:yes and press Enter.
• Close the Command Prompt and exit out of the Windows Recovery Environment. Reboot your PC and try to log in.

Get back to us if you need further assistance.

 

Windows 10 PC not recognizing administrator privileges.

Hi Jade,

Damages within the components of your user profile can be one of the possible reasons why you are experiencing an issue with using its administrator privileges. To troubleshoot this concern, we suggest creating a new admin user profile. To be able to create
a new administrator user profile, you would need to enable the built-in administrator in your Windows 10 device.

To enable the built-in administrator account, follow these steps:

• Using Search type CMD to open the Command Prompt. Right click on CMD then choose Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Yes.
  
• In the Command Prompt window, type net user administrator /active:yes and then hit the Enter key.
• You should see a message that the command completed successfully. Log out the user profile you are currently using, and you’ll now see the Administrator account as a choice on the login screen.
  
• Using the built-in administrator account, create a new admin user profile.
• Log into the new admin user profile.
• Check if the same issue persists.

Note: The built-in administrator account has more privileges than a regular administrator account. Privileges that can easily generate a conflict on your system. We only recommend enabling the built-in administrator account for troubleshooting purposes and
you have to disable it once you are done.

To disable the built-in administrator account, access the Command Prompt with administrator privileges. Type the command
net user administrator /active:no and then hit the Enter key. The built-in administrator account will now be disabled, and shouldn’t show up on the login screen.

Update us with the results.