Windows 10: Windows 10 Laptop Administrator Changed to Guest Account - unable to reverse

Greetings,I have a tricky situation seeking expertise.I have a windows 10 laptop with one user log in. It was set as local user administrator. As I was trying to change that, somehow I managed to change the administrator to guest user. Now my laptop is stuck with no administrator user with one guest user and is unable to open Windows setting, let alone to add / remove user or even to try to use laptop's recovery program to reset.Is there a way to add another user without accessing to Windows Setting as a new administrator?Thank you very much.

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Unable to show Administrator or Guest account on login screen

July 15, 2017

I have WIN 10 Pro on a Dell laptop.

I have been unable to find a way to show ALL accounts, User, (built in) Administrator, Guest account, etc at WIN 10 login/sign on. The only account I can get to show in my user account (which has administrator status).
I have successfully used the cmd “net user administrator / active:yes, net user administrator * “ and successfully assigned a password, and the net user guest / active:yes command. I restart or power down and restart and the only account that shows is the single user account. As far as I can tell issueing the above commands should make the Administrator and Guest accounts show on the login/signon screen. I have tried a couple of other options I found on line but without success.

I must be missing something. I did see a couple of comments about “User group. Home group” but could not figure out what was being asked. My Dell laptop is used at home, wireless connected to my router and the internet. I do not remember being asked any questions about “home group” or “groups” at installation on WIN 10.

Would appreciate any (detail) instructions or links showing how to make all the WIN 10 PRO accounts to show at logon.

Thank you

 

Unable to show Administrator or Guest account on login screen

Unless you made a typo here the command is incorrect. There should not be a space between / and active so if you want to enable built in administrator with password = "Secret123" you would enter:

net user administrator Secret123 /active:yes

Enable or Disable Elevated Administrator account in Windows 10 Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

You can then sign out (no need to reboot) and you should see the built in Administrator on the log-in screen.

The guest account doesn't exist any more in Windows 10. You could add an account to use as a guest account and make it part of the guests group if you want as described here Add Guest Account in Windows 10 Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials but it is pretty limited. Users that are part of guests group can't open store apps for example.

 

Guest account option in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for the response and keeping the status updated.

I suggest you to turn on guest account and check. Please follow the below steps to enable guest account:

1. Open Command Prompt in Admin mode.

2.First, you have to get the list of all the user accounts of your system and to get the list type the command
net user and click Enter.

3.In order to active Administrator Account, type the following command :

4. To activate the Guest Account type this command:

Please reply with the results, we will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.