Windows 10: Windows 10 Home-Manage Child Local account with admin override

Hello community, This issue has been bothering me for some time and I am hoping someone here can provide detailed and clear steps. My child has an account on a Windows 10 Home computer. I have set his account as 'Child' because I obviously do not want him to have administrator permissions. However, certain applications that I have allowed him to install require Admin permissions in order to run. Here in lies the problem. When he attempts to execute these programs it will prompt with a User Access notification that Admin permissions are required, but no option to provide admin credentia

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Can a local user be changed to a child account?

Windows 10 Home
ver 1909

Hello,

I'm trying to see if there's a way to change a local account (standard user) to a child account so it can be managed in the Microsoft Family?

I tried to follow the steps here https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...1-c8f8cca1d52f

but there's no option for "family and other users".

They do not have Microsoft accounts. Do I need to basically create a new child account at Windows setup?

Any assistance appreciated.

 

Child option not present in Windows 10 Family Safety

Hi George,

Thank you for your response.

• Are you trying these steps in admin account or a local account?

The steps given in the link ahs to be performed in the Website and a invite has to sent from the web and check if it helps.

I suggest you to refer the link and check the Add a child account to your family and check
if it helps.

Hope this information helps. Keep us posted to help you better.

 

Can a Local Admin account manage a Microsoft Admin account?

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@Tr3: Wow !! Thanks for the comprehensive response.

BTW: There was an important sentence missing in my OP. That type of error is gradually occurring more often with me now. It was probably one cause of the Windows reset.

I should have said:

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- Also, up till now, I've always had a second Admin account just in case. I don't recall ever using the second Admin account, so I must be doing something right.

After being forced to reset Windows, I currently have one Local Admin account. [I now plan to add a second Local Account for safety. ]

Question: If I change the [default] Local account to a Microsoft account, can that account be managed by the [second] Local account Admin?
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I hope the corrections made above might clarify my plan.

I've started doing that since @dalchina rapped my knuckles here:

Am I an Adminstrator ? Will I still be Admin in an hours time?

I used Macrium immediately after the reset. Since then, I've been doing Diffs. Each Diff takes only 1 minute, because of the few changes between each Diff. But the changes themselves took a lot longer than 1 minute.

IMO, your suggestion to use alternate hard drives for backups is great. My plan had been to use 2 drives with identical contents, but I'm now going to follow your method.

Before the infamous reset, I converted the default Local account to a Microsoft account (my "primary" account). Then I created a second Microsoft account for safety.

I then went back to the primary account, and changed myself to a Normal user - as the big boys recommend. I did some stuff. I then needed to be Admin again for something. But I was unable to change myself back to Admin from within the primary account.

I switched to the alternative MS account. I changed the primary account back from Normal user to Admin. That final step is what I meant when I referred to "using one account to manage another account".

Your post has a lot of other useful stuff that I'm going to implement - with Diffs in between.

Thanks for your help.