Windows 10: User Account Issue

Hello,
I have lost the use of my user account, i cannot delete, change anything on my laptop, the user account window appears and in the past i had an option to use either YES or NO i only get NO and have to log in as administrator i do not see where to do this, i may have changed my admin account to standard account, i am not a computer person (70 yr old guy) so you i hope you understand i have tried Microsoft but they want $184.00 for a year, i had an issue before (two years ago) and they went on my computer and fixed it within 10 minutes i guess times have changed, hope someone can help.

Thank you for your time.
Terry.

:)

 

User account and user folder issue

You bet! You an also right-click the Start button (the menu there has a shortcut to the Admin command prompt), or you can always just find the command prompt icon shortcut and right-click it to Run-as-admin (the Ctrl-Shift-Enter is just the keyboard shortcut
for that).

 

User account and user folder issue

Thanks. That brings up the administrator command prompt I was looking for , C:\windows\system32>

 

Terry,

Use the procedure in If the Admin prompt has a greyed out or missing Yes button but no password entry box, use the Built-In Admin account in Safe mode to create two new Admin accounts - MSA Forum article

I wrote that article but do not use that forum anymore so if you have any questions, post them here. I hope you do not feel that the procedure is beyond you - if it seems that way it will probably be because of shortcomings in my explanations.

Denis

 

Hello Denis,

Looks a little over my head but looking i shall try the Safe Mode, you have illustrated what icons to push so i shall try this.

Best Regards

Terry

 

You will need to enable build-in Administrator account and from Administrator account change your user account type from Control Panel --> User Accounts.

Please visit my tutorial, link is below and scroll down to How to Enable Windows Build-in Administrator Account section.


Windows Recovery Environment


Make sure to disable the build-in Administrator account when you are finish.

 

Terry,

I understand what FreeBooter has suggested but it is not appropriate to your situation because it ignores how Windows behaves in the particular circumstances you have described.

FreeBooter's procedure is called 'Registry hive editing'. It would replace section 3 of the procedure I have suggested so you would still need to use sections 4 & 5.

Denis

 

Hi Tjmck,

This problem can be solved easily.

1. Enable the built in administrator: Enable or Disable Elevated Administrator account in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

2. Create a local account: Add Local Account or Microsoft Account in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

3. Login in with the new created local account, and set the account type as the administrator: Change Account Type in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

4. After you set the local account as the administrator, you can add, move, delete files as you like.