Windows 10: Windows 10 Administrator rights issue...

Good Day,


I installed an old game I had laying around Civ 3, and once installed when I tried to open the game to play I got a prompt that administrative privileges were needed to open file. I am the owner of the pc and administrator, I install and remove programs and set all settings as I see fit. Why is it asking for administrative privileges? So I did a search on the web and applied the following "FIX":

Step 1.
Click the "Start" menu, select "All Programs" and open the "Accessories" folder. Right-click "Command Prompt" and select "Run as Administrator" from the drop-down menu. Click "Continue."

Step 2.
Enter "net user administrator /active:yes" in the command box and press "Enter."

Step 3.
Log out of your account on the computer.

Step 4.
Look for the new account on the log-in page. You should see the new "Administrator" account along with any other user accounts.

Step 5.
Log in to the administrator account -- no password is necessary to log in. Set a password if you desire.

After completing the above steps, I did see both options My original account and the administrative account. I logged in as administrator, fixed the desktop icons and proceeded to open and play the game. No working circle or anything happens. I went through file explorer and my DVD drive is not showing. Confused I open the DVD drive and made sure the disc was in properly and closed it. I look at file explorer and their it is. Game window open and I click Play game. Civ 3 Window disappears and the game does not start. I gave up!!!

So I decide to open a document and work on something else. All my word, PDF documents are gone. My Music and photos are gone.

So I shut down windows 10 depressed... But figured "hey I can log back as my regular "Non administrative rights account" and get back all my stuff; a thought. To my disbelief, I do not get the option, upon boot up it goes straight to Administrative account.


PLEASE tell me how to fix this and regain all my work, music and family photos. PLEASE...

Thank you for your time and sorry for the long message...

:)

 

Administrator Rights

We suggest creating a new local user account and delete the previous account. Check the article below and follow the steps given.

Create a local user account in Windows 10

Follow the steps below to delete user account.

• Press Windows + X, select the Control Panel.
• Click User accounts.
• Click Manage other account.
• Enter administrator account password if prompted.
• Click the account which you want to delete.
• Click Delete the account.
• Restart PC.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Administrative rights

I have tried the suggestions listed on
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/administrator-rights/8523fd5c-5197-4eac-a174-bb20b522cad2 with no luck. I might have locked myself out in the endless ways of trying to resolve this issue.

Please provide me a way that I may obtain my administrative rights on my computer again.

Thank you,

Doug

 

No Administrator Rights On The PC (Windows 10)

Hi Fozia,

We appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

Step 1:

To start Windows 10 in safe mode with command prompt:

• Press Windows + I keys on the keyboard to open Settings menu.
• Select Update & security and click on Recovery.
• Go to Advanced startup and select
  Restart now.
• After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot
  > Advanced options > Startup Settings >Restart.
• After your PC restarts, select a startup setting as Safe Mode with command prompt by pressing the corresponding number.

Step 2:

Follow the below steps to enable Built in Administrator:

• 
  Open Command Prompt from Windows Recovery Environment.
  
• 
  Copy and paste the below command and press Enter.
  

net user administrator /active:yes

3. Close the Command Prompt.

4. Try to login though Built in Administrator and change the other user account privileges to Administrator.

5. You may create new user account also and assign the administrative privileges to the account.

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.