Isaiah Melendez
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Administrator Account Disabled and Current Account logged into is Non-admin
Hello Experts -
So we ran into a little quandary. Someone set up a machine and inadvertently disabled the administrator account and then disabled administrative privileges to the only account that is in use.
Does anyone know of a quick little trick to re-enable the admin account?
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Current Profile: non-admin
PC is not on a domain
So we ran into a little quandary. Someone set up a machine and inadvertently disabled the administrator account and then disabled administrative privileges to the only account that is in use.
Does anyone know of a quick little trick to re-enable the admin account?
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Current Profile: non-admin
PC is not on a domain
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You can use the above tool to enable the admin account, and set a password to it.
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So this tool will work if the user profile we are using right now is a limited user (no admin rights), correct?
You need to try to reset the account off-line and change the privilege level.
If it does not work, you need to reinstall Windows 10 from the media creation link (KEEP Data and Applications)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
If it does not work, you need to reinstall Windows 10 from the media creation link (KEEP Data and Applications)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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can you not run a command prompt as administrator (start x -- Command Prompt (as admin) then
net user administrator /active:yes
net user administrator /active:yes
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Try PogoStick to see if you can reset the user's account off-line.
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/