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Unable to Log in with Admin Account Windows 10
Hintza
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Upgraded a new laptop (month old) from 8.1 to 10 and all was good.
Laptop is used by daughter without admin privileges on her account. The Admin is in my OH name.
Today when I was doing some downloads (Speech Recognition) when I tried to give permission the Admin password was not recognised, when I tried changing users unsurprisingly the password was not recognised.
However, if I go in to settings and recovery mode the password is recognised.
I have messed about with this for hours and I'm pulling my hair out.
Any ideas?
Laptop is used by daughter without admin privileges on her account. The Admin is in my OH name.
Today when I was doing some downloads (Speech Recognition) when I tried to give permission the Admin password was not recognised, when I tried changing users unsurprisingly the password was not recognised.
However, if I go in to settings and recovery mode the password is recognised.
I have messed about with this for hours and I'm pulling my hair out.
Any ideas?
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The admin account is disabled by default in Windows 10. The account you used when upgrading to 10 has admin rights.
To activate the inactive administrator account, run the command "net user administrator /active:yes" from an elevated cmd prompt.0 -
I_have_spoken wrote: »The admin account is disabled by default in Windows 10. The account you used when upgrading to 10 has admin rights.
To activate the inactive administrator account, run the command "net user administrator /active:yes" from an elevated cmd prompt.
I've done that to no avail0 -
Restored it back to the day it was bought and all seemed fine added an account for me and upgraded all to admin accounts and am currently re-installing Windows 10.
The whole process was torture. Never did get the Account Admin to work even though it said it was fine in the cmd box .....hey ho.0
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