In this guide, we'll walk you through five different methods that you can change a user account type to give a friend or family member more (or less) control over what they can do on a Windows 10. Operating Systems Is your Windows 10 user account an Administrator? Here's how to quickly find out. Before you can perform certain tasks with Windows 10, you need to be using an Administrator account. If you've lost administrator rights in Windows 10/8 & you cannot manipulate your system, this article will help you regain or get back admin privileges.

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Hi Duncan,

I understand the inconvenience you are facing. Let me help you in resolving the issue.

I suggest you to follow the methods below and check if that helps.

Method 1

•Open an elevated command prompt

•Type takeown /U %username% /F %USERPROFILE% /R /SKIPSL (You may also need the /P <password>

•Once that completes type cacls %USERPROFILE% /T /E /G %USERNAME%:F

This should force you to be the owner of everything in your profile and grant you full access.

If the issue still prissiest, try Method 2.

Method 2

1. Press WinKey+ Q, type user accountsand click on the result.

2. Then select your User Account > Click Manage another account.

3. In the following window, click Add a user account option.

4. Now we have to create a local account user. So after clicking Add an account, click Sign in without a Microsoft account (Not recommended), then clickLocal account. Fill the details on the screen so appeared for adding local account. Click Finish when done.

5. Press Windows Key + Q and type cmd, for the search results, click Command Prompt. Type following command and hit Enter key: shutdown /r /o

6. The previous step will result your system to boot into Safe Mode. After getting into Safe Mode, press Windows Key + Q, type user accounts, and pick the same from results so appear. You would have now two accounts on your system; first you’re issued admin account and second the local account which you’ve created in step 2. Select local account.

7. Now click Change the account type link in following window:

8. Moving on, change the account status from StandardtoAdministrator. Click Change Account Type.

In this way, the new local account we’ve created has been changed to Administrator. Now you can restart your machine and log into this account with administrator rights. Since you have administrative privileges now; so you can back up your documents from the old administrator account.

Finally, delete the old admin account and switch to Microsoft account to synchronize your settings with new administrative account. Your system will now act normally with full admin rights in your hand.

My laptop freezes on startup. I have been having issues with my laptop freezing multiple times.

Hope the information helps. Please let us know if the issue persist and we will be happy to assist you further.

This is a classic example of why MS is failing compared to Google Android. I have little or no problems handling multiple accounts on an Android device. With Windows, it is just about impossible to get a clear answer, because the OS is far from intuitive anymore, and because MS online documentation has become at best fragmentary and at worst non-existent. It LOOKS like I can assign administrator status to an account once it is set up and signed in. What that actually means in terms of software setup and other key functions is left undefined. MS seems satisfied to leave users stuck in the muck of such a situation. That bespeaks a company that is far too self-satisfied and has too dominant a market position. It has never been particularly comfortable being an MS customer, but since WIndows 10 it has become positively troublesome and unrewarding in the extreme.

Administrator Access Windows 10

That is why I am doing my very best to shift away from Windows to a Chromebook with reasonably functional Android apps, a non-standard but perfectly serviceable Linux Ubuntu overlay (by way of the Crouton extension), and a WINE installation on Ubuntu to run a select few essential Windows programmes like Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Get Admin Rights Win 10

After 35 years of DOS/Windows frustration, I am in the process of adopting an OS that appears to me to be neither overly authoritarian (MacOS) nor overly cumbersome and chaotic (Windows). Chrome OS still has a way to go, but I see it as offering a viable pathway out of the tar pits MS has been satisfied to create for its users for nearly four decades.

Time's up, MS, as far as I'm concerned.