Solved How to Change to Administrator from Standard User?

I'm at a loss as to becoming the Administrator of my own machine. I guess I'm now a "a standard user" even though I built the machine and am the only user of it. I guess I never realized or knew how to make myself the admin for the machine. Now I cannot "own" files to make changes because I'm not the admin. Help please! How can I become the adminstrator?

Hi mendopaul

Try this .

Click on rb: type CMD in search programs and files right click on CMD under Programs (1) choose Run as administrator click yes on the UAC window

Command prompt should open to this path C:\Windows\System32>_

Inside command prompt type in

Many thanks Vista King. I did as you suggested and I got system error 1376 which Microsoft recognizes and has posted the following workaround: "When you set up local groups, avoid using the same name for the local group name and the domain name." In my computer under users my name is shown as a "standard user" but the advice from MS always refers to "local group" or "local groups". Is a User the same as a "group" or local group? I'm puzzled now as to how to proceed. The answer I got from the command prompt string was "group does not exist". or at first "no group with that name".

Type in the words as is localgroup administrators youruseraccount /add

What that will do is add your user account to the Administrators group .

I did exactly that. I typed those words exactly as you advised and got error 1376 saying that they know the problem exists and don't know why it happens but there is a workaround which I quoted before. I'll keep trying your method.
I realize now what's happening is that the program is saying that the local group does not exist. Did you get a chance to look at error 1376? That's what I'm referring to and has got me buffaloed.

The Administrators group has to exist . When you go to control panel User Account and you see your name does it say Standard underneath ?

Question : Are you trying this on the account you are on right now ? If you are we will need to do this on another account .

Lets try this

:ar: Enable Built-in Administrator Account

Click on rb: type CMD right click on CMD underneath Programs (1) choose Run as Administrator . Click on the Yes button inside UAC window . Inside command prompt window type in


Close the command prompt log off and log in with the user account " Administrator " no password

Once you're logged in under that account type in the command


Once you're able to add the user account to the Administrators group close the window log off from Administrator and log back in under your account .

Then Click on rb: type CMD right click on CMD underneath Programs (1) choose Run as Administrator . Click on the Yes button inside UAC window . Inside command prompt window type in

Yes it does

Try the steps I added above

When Windows is installed the initial user account, the one you must create to finalize installation, is always an administrative account. There's no exceptions. Hence if you have installed Windows and only created the one account you are using, it is an administrator account. Check the Control Panel > User Accounts and you should see the label Administrator under your name.

Could it be possible you are mixing the normal administrative user account and the built-in administrator account which is something totally different. Even an administrator sometimes needs more rights, Windows telling the user has not rights to do a task. In this case you need to run the task elevated, using built-in administrator rights.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html

Kari

Kari, My account that I've always used shows me as a standard user and when I try and change that the control button is greyed out and makes the change impossible. I cannot find an administrator for my machine. Right now I'm trying to run the commands that Vista King has suggested which I will do and report back. But I cannot find an admin account from what I can tell.

What Kari was saying is when you install Windows the first account created will always be in the Administrators group . Which is true .

I wrote this long post and clicked first on "solved" and it wiped out my post. I was never able to complete the procedure because at the end I still got the "no such account exists" message. But your procedure ending in "...../add" did the trick because now I have an Admin account under which I was able to access my email account and delete the offending messages and now I have access again to my email program which puts me back in business. I'm most grateful for your help and I thank you profusely for your patience with this problem.

You don't really want to use the built-in Administrator account for every day use .

How to create a new User Account

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...reate-new-delete.html?filter[2]=User Accounts

How to Add User Accounts to a Group

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/103570-user-accounts-add-remove-groups.html?filter

New to the forum as a member but have been reading for some time.

Like many others, I am very frustrated with my [normal user] account, which has been a full admin account, being demoted. I can not elevate it again, regardless what I try.

Net localgroup says my account is already an administrator yet I don't have admin privileges. Logging in as Administrator - the built-in account lets me do everything except elevate my normal user account back to full administrator privileges.

I would be eternally grateful if someone - ANYONE could help me fix this back the way I want it.

Thanks in advance.

Change Standard User to Administrator

What worked for me is to go to desired User and click on change user account type. It will show Standard User. Click on change user account type and you will return to the previous screen. Click on change user account type again, then select Administrator, change user account type will no longer be grayed, click change user account type and it should change user to Administrator type!

I used this to be able to control hibernation. Standard User cannot control hibernation. Hope this helps as it took me more than a day to solve.

ValtinX - change std user to Admin - solved

last post above works - simple

solved

thanx