[SOLVED] How To Rid Admin On Windows 10 Home

[RKD2313]

My wife works in Real Estate (Property Management) and her company gives everyone laptops and they all mostly work from home. A couple months ago the company bought a new round of laptops for everyone. They were supposed to give her the box & label to send it in to their corporate office, but they never did. 2-3 weeks ago the topic was brought up with her boss that my wife still had her old laptop and her boss told her that if they hadn't sent the box & label to just keep the laptop. I just wanted to preface my need for help so no one thinks my request is SUS and it seems like the laptop was stolen from a school or library or something. If they send for it, we'll send it back no problem. I would even offer to pay them for what a similar model with the same specs goes for currently.

The company's IT has it configured to where everything is constantly being monitored. Cant install anything, go to certain common sites, or do anything that would require Admin access.

What options do I have in terms of either getting admin access and disabling all other admins accounts?
Factory reset from booting up via USB?

Thanks for any help!

 

[rgd1101]

fresh os install

 

[Math Geek]

yup only a fresh install will get it back to a "normal" state

 

[RKD2313]

fresh os install

yup only a fresh install will get it back to a "normal" state

I dont have a product key, so Im going to install the Custom option from USB

My question is, do I need to format/clear the data thats currently on the drives?

This is a HP Laptop (Older) with a i5 6200.
Currently the laptop has 5 Partitions:
Drive 0 Partition 1 - 167MB Free of 260MB (System)
Drive 0 Partition 2 - 16MB Free of 16MB (MSR Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 3 - Windows 829.8GB Free of 915.6GB (Primary)
Drive 0 Partition 4 - 854MB Free of 1.7GB (Recovery)
Drive 0 Partition 5 - 1.5GB Free of 14GB (OEM Reserved)

 

[Cj-tech]

I dont have a product key, so Im going to install the Custom option from USB

My question is, do I need to format/clear the data thats currently on the drives?

This is a HP Laptop (Older) with a i5 6200.
Currently the laptop has 5 Partitions:
Drive 0 Partition 1 - 167MB Free of 260MB (System)
Drive 0 Partition 2 - 16MB Free of 16MB (MSR Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 3 - Windows 829.8GB Free of 915.6GB (Primary)
Drive 0 Partition 4 - 854MB Free of 1.7GB (Recovery)
Drive 0 Partition 5 - 1.5GB Free of 14GB (OEM Reserved)

When you boot from the Windows 10 USB drive and go through the install, there will be a step that you need to choose “Custom Installation.” Make sure to delete all of the partitions there.

 

[USAFRet]

I dont have a product key, so Im going to install the Custom option from USB

My question is, do I need to format/clear the data thats currently on the drives?

This is a HP Laptop (Older) with a i5 6200.
Currently the laptop has 5 Partitions:
Drive 0 Partition 1 - 167MB Free of 260MB (System)
Drive 0 Partition 2 - 16MB Free of 16MB (MSR Reserved)
Drive 0 Partition 3 - Windows 829.8GB Free of 915.6GB (Primary)
Drive 0 Partition 4 - 854MB Free of 1.7GB (Recovery)
Drive 0 Partition 5 - 1.5GB Free of 14GB (OEM Reserved)

Yes, you NEED to fully wipe the drive(s). All partitions.

See if you can recover/extract the license key.
Belarc Advisor can maybe do this.

But even without the previous license key, buy a valid one yourself.
Boom...you have a laptop for $100.

 

[Alabalcho]

Just a side note: All this will work if BIOS options are not locked as well. And if they are, no IT department will share the BIOS password so that the end user can change them, and in most laptops CMOS battery does not clear BIOS passwords.

 

[RKD2313]

I was able to delete all partitions and install a fresh Win 10 via USB. My account is now the admin.

Thanks for the help and advice!

 

[Cj-tech]

I was able to delete all partitions and install a fresh Win 10 via USB. My account is now the admin.

Thanks for the help and advice!

Glad you were able to get it working. Best of luck!