Administrator Rights (cmd Wong start AS admin)

Hussein97042

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So i somehow dont have administrator Rights In Windows 10 and If i try to open up cmd Then it Wont come up and says that i need administrator Rights to run cmd AS administrator
 

USAFRet

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You can only do that from an already existing Admin account.
A standard user cannot elevate himself to Admin, for obvious reasons.
 

Hussein97042

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When i made my account it was administrator but Then by mistake i chamged it back to standard. Does that mean that i Can change it back to administrator?
 

USAFRet

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No idea.
I've never had that happen to me.
 

Hussein97042

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:(
 

Hussein97042

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So what should i Do now. Im pretty sure that my account was a normal admin account
 

u2desire420

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Your computer MUST have another account on it that is setup as Administrator since it is not possible to downgrade an Administrator account while logged into that account. You HAVE to be logged into another Administrator account to be able to change the other to a Standard account.
 

Hussein97042

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So Its not possible to boot up In safe mode and log into the administrator account and Then command prompt?
 

USAFRet

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So what happens when you try it?
 

Hussein97042

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Im just asking If that was an option but right now im not at my pc and im first gonna be there In 3 days :(

 

u2desire420

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You will only be able to login the built in Administrator account if it is active and you know the password. When you boot into safe mode it will show the accounts that are on the machine and if Administrator is one of these accounts that choose it but you will need the password for this account.
If you manage that than you can run from the command prompt "net localgroup administrators <created username> /add" to add your account to the Administrators Group. Replace <created username> with your account name.
 

Hussein97042

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But How Do you find this password? and sometimes there is no password you just Press Enter
 

USAFRet

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The password is whatever it was that you created initially.
If you do not know the admin password, you're probably out of luck.
 

Hussein97042

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So the admin account has no password but when i log into it i cant Do anything but Then i logger into my account and i ran cmd AS admin and Then i wrote net users besidde the c:\windows\system32> and Then it showed my account and Said it was a default user bc i dont have admin Rights and Then i wrote net users administrator/active:Yes and Then it Said
The syntax of this command is
And Then it showed alot of password things and other things like that
What Do i Do
 

u2desire420

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If you are able to login to the built-in Administrator account than do so and run from the command prompt (may have to select Run as Administrator) "net localgroup administrators [username] /add" replace [username] with your account login in. Eg. "net localgroup administrators u2desire420 /add"
Beyond that I don't know how else to help you without violating forum rules so your next option maybe to do a clean install of Windows 10.
 

Hussein97042

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So now i Got the admin Rights but now when i sign In i now Can choose 2 account mine and the admin one Can i Do another option of just making a new primary account from Microsoft and Then have admin Rights on that one ?
 

USAFRet

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If you are logged in as an Admin, create a new, local, Admin account.
It does not have to be a Microsoft account.
 

u2desire420

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http://pureinfotech.com/how-create-local-user-account-windows-10/ will show you different ways to create new accounts.
If after you want to disable the built-in Administrator account run "net users administrator/active:No" from an Administrative command prompt.