Hello everybody!
In this video, I’m going to show you how to turn a standard user into administrator
in Windows 10, 8 or 7, and how to enable or disable the integrated administrator’s account.
Right after installation of an operating system, the first user account you create has administrator
rights, and any other accounts you create later will have standard user rights.
If you need to assign administrator rights to a standard user account, I’ll show you
several methods of doing it.
Enable administrator rights in Windows 10 settings
To make a user become an administrator in Windows 10, go to Settings / Accounts / Family
& Other people.
In this section, click on the user account you want to assign such rights to, and select
“Change account type.”
In the window that opens, select Administrator and click Ok.
That’s all - next time you sign in, this user will have administrator rights.
Do it with Control Panel The following methods will work with Windows
10 and earlier Windows operating systems - and they involve the Control Panel.
Open it by selecting the line in the Start menu or typing in the search field, then select
User Accounts / Manage another account.
Then select the one you need and in the windows that opens click on “Change the account
type.”
Check the Administrator option and confirm your action by clicking on “Change account
type.”
After the changes are saved, the selected user will be given administrator rights.
With the Local Users and Groups utility Another way to do it is by using the Local
Users and Groups utility.
To use it, open the Run window by pressing Win+R key shortcut and enter lusrmgr.msc.
In the window that opens, go to Users folder and double-click on the one you need.
Here, click on the tab “Member of” and select “Add.”
In this line, type Administrators and click Ok.
Then select Users from the list and click Remove, then Ok.
At the next sign-in, this user will have corresponding rights.
With the command prompt Another one-stop way is using the command
prompt.
Launch the Command prompt as Administrator and type “net users.”
You will see the list of all accounts.
Now remember the exact name of the user account you want to give administrator rights to,
and type the command: net localgroup Administrators Test /add
(the user name, in my case it’s Test) and press Enter.
Type the command net localgroup Users Test /delete, and again
the name of the user whom you want to assign administrator rights.
After that, the user will be added to the list of administrators and removed from the
list of standard users.
In some builds, the terms to use will be Administrators and Users.
If the user name is made up of several words, put it into parentheses.
How to turn a user into administrator without having access to the Administrator’s account
All the methods I have shown you require that you have administrator’s rights for the
account from which you are going to perform all those actions, and if you need to do it
from the account having no administrator rights, the task becomes more difficult.
You will either have to reset the password for the administrator’s account - and you
can watch one of our videos to see how to do it properly.
Find the link in the description. and then sign in as administrator and use
one of the methods I have shown before, or watch this video until the stage when the
command prompt is launched and use the methods with the command prompt which I mentioned
before.
How to enable or disable the integrated administrator’s account
Windows operating systems also feature an integrated administrator’s account.
To enable it, launch the Command prompt as Administrator and type the following command:
“net user Administrator/active:yes” and press “Enter”
After you do it, the administrator’s account will be enabled.
To disable it, just change “yes” to “no.” net user Administrator /active:no
There are cases when there are no other accounts, and this account is the only one; the reason
why users want to disable it is that it shows a notification “This app can’t open.
It can’t be opened using the built-in Administrator account.
Sign in with a different account and try again.”
In this case, try creating a new account with administrator rights; watch another video
about adding an account - the link is below the video:
and then disable the integrated account.
But remember that if you worked in this account for a long time, when you disable it all documents,
photos and videos located in the system folders of this user will become unavailable.
So copy them to another place before you start.
Create a new account, assign administrator rights to it, and sign in again.
After these steps, you’ll be able to use your operating system without any limitations.
That is all for now.
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