Windows 10: Windows 10 lost administrator rights and cant logn

This is awful as I can't login and I lost my administrator rights and I need help during this tough situation please help as I need my admin back

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Lost Administrative Rights

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Administrative Privileges lost on Windows 10

Wrote some steps here on how to regain lost administrative rights in Windows.

Fix Lost Administrator rights in Windows 11 and Windows 10 - Your Windows Guide

1. Perform a hard shutdown two times during the Windows boot screen. On the third time, Windows should boot to the recovery environment. You can also press and hold Shift+click Restart on the lock screen to open Windows Recovery.
   
2. Click Troubleshoot on the screen. Then choose Advanced options>Start-up Settings.
   
3. Select Restart.
   
4. Press 4 to launch the computer in Safe mode.
   

Afterwards, Windows should log you into your standard account. From there, type netplwiz in the Run dialog box. You should now see a prompt asking for the superuser admin account password. The password is usually blank, and clicking yes without entering anything should do the trick. If that does not help, try entering the password of your user account that has lost administrative rights.

Now, the next step is to regain lost administrator rights. For that, double click the username to open its properties.

Next, click the group membership tab.

From Standard user, change the membership to Administrator and click OK.





The user account would now have administrator rights restored.

 

window 10 administrator rights

Hello kemeticMM,

I'm Independent Advisor and Microsoft MVP, here to help you with your question.

See if this step-by-step fix helps you:

https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-lost-administrati...

Let us know if this helps!

Note: Included link in this reply refers to blog post by a trusted Microsoft MVP.