How to Make Yourself an Administrator on Windows 10

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Richard Beers

Doesn't the Administrator account have administrator privlage? How would creating a second profile superceded the administrators account?

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The built-in Administrator is not a user account; it's a system account. Since it's not a user account, it doesn't work the way a user account normally works.

The built-in Administrator is your lifeline when you can't sign in to Windows any other way. You should never use it for day-to-day computing and never store personal data in that account.

Use the built-in Administrator to create a user account with Administrator permissions. Then, remove any personal files from the built-in Administrator and return it to its default configuration, if you can. Then, disable the built-in Administrator.

A user account with Administrator permissions should only be used for tasks that require Administrator permissions. For most day-to-day computing you should be using a Standard account. That's the smart way to use Windows.

Use the user account with Administrator permissions to create a Standard user account. All your personal files should be stored in the Standard account, and that's the account you should be using for day-to-day computing.

While in the Standard account, if you start to perform a task that requires Administrator permissions, you will be asked for your Administrator account password. That's to save you the trouble having to sign in to your Administrator account. You should rarely have any need to actually sign in to your Administrator account.

Your user accounts can be local accounts or Microsoft accounts, or you can mix and match. Totally up to you. You will need to have one Microsoft account to take advantage of certain features of Windows. Even so, you don't need to actually sign in to your Microsoft account if you don't want to; you only have to enter your MSA username and password when prompted.

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Alright so where does one create the other account at? And how do I make it the primary account.

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Richard,

Please can I check something?

Does your question meanHow can I stop getting the Admin prompts that appear when, for example, I install applications?

If so then the answer is that there is no safe means of doing so. Even when your user account is correctly recognised as an Admin-level account these prompts will appear at times. You can avoid the prompts for changing Windows settings but not for more major items such as installations.

- If your account is Admin then the prompts will contain a Yes button.

- If your account is Standard, the prompts will include selecting an Admin account name & entering its password.

In both cases there is a more details link for you to check that the application causing the prompt is one you are running and not something being initiated by malware.

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Settings > Accounts > Family and other users > Others users > Add someone else to this PC > proceed to create a local account or a Microsoft account, as you wish.

If the account thus created turns out to be a Standard account, you can promote it to Administrator: Control Panel > User Accounts > Manage another account.

Now you have a user account with Administrator permissions. When you sign in to your new Administrator account, you can create a new Standard user by following the steps above.

If you stored any personal data in the built-in Administrator, move it to the Standard account. Then reset the built-in Administrator to its default configuration settings and disable it.

The final result is that you have two user accounts: one with Administrator permissions and one with Standard permissions.

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I have installed installed several programs; for PLC programing, CLICK programming software for example if double click on the Icon with my mouse pad the program opens but does fully operate. I must right click on the icon select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR then everything is operatonal.

Previous versions of Windows everything worked. Without having to tell the computer to run as administrator.

I would like windows 10 to run programs as windows 7 and windows XP did.

Is this possible?

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Richard,

If an application has the capability of changing things outside of your own user settings & folders then it must be given Admin permission to run. Do note that you are not telling the whole computer to run as Admin, you are telling the computer to let that individual application run as Admin. If the application can be opened in some reduced functionality mode, as I think you are saying, this rather confirms to me that its full mode does indeed have the capability of changing things outside your own user settings & folders.

This applied to Windows 7 as well. If your applications did not need Admin permission in Windows 7 but do in Windows 10 then I suspect that they are not fully Windows 10 compatible. In this case, I think you'll find better advice in the applications' websites and user forums, if any.

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I need an Administrators Account to use my Printer via a USB connection. It worked fine until a month ago. Now it is Froze because the Queue is stuck on PAUSE and RESTART does not work. I bought Speedy-Fixer to remedy this but it demands an Administrator account. I need the code to put in the COMMAND PROMPT box to become an Administrator to use Speedy-Fixer to unlock the Queue (hopefully). in advance Thanks to 1 & all. Charlie footboarder at gmail dot com

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How to Make Yourself an Administrator on Windows 10

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