Cannot change account to administrator!

Anonymous
2012-11-03T17:01:26+00:00

Hi. I need to change my account to administrator so I can make changes to my internet accounts but my internet provider told me that I am just a standard user in Windows 8 and I need to change it to administrator. When I try to change my user profile from standard to administrator, Windows 8 won't let me, even though I am logged in under my Microsoft account. How can I change this? It's pretty frustrating!!

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Anonymous
2012-11-03T22:53:02+00:00

Hi. I need to change my account to administrator so I can make changes to my internet accounts but my internet provider told me that I am just a standard user in Windows 8 and I need to change it to administrator. When I try to change my user profile from standard to administrator, Windows 8 won't let me, even though I am logged in under my Microsoft account. How can I change this? It's pretty frustrating!!

Hi

You cannot use a Standard (Local) account to change the account to Administrator. You can only use an existing Administrator account to do this.

Open Control Panel (Move the cursor to the lower/left corner of the screen and Right Click, select Control Panel on the menu.

In Control Panel, select User Accounts.

Select Manage another account.

This will show all of the user accounts on the computer. If there is an Administrator account it will show that designation.

Sign Out and log on with any Administrator Account.

Go back to Control Panel/User Accounts.

Select Manage another account and then select the Standard account you wish to change.

Select the Change Account Type option.

Select the Administrator option to change the account and click the Change Account Type button.

If there are no other Administrator Accounts, let us know and we can try another recovery method.

Let us know what you find.

Regards

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-12-01T19:20:45+00:00

    Hi, Thanks for the info.  I've been having the same problem.  I followed your procedure to restore Admin rights.  Here's the problem.  When I'm operating in Safe mode, using the local administrator account, the other account I'm trying to manage says that the account type is "Administrator" and the change button is greyed out.  When I reboot to Normal, login as local administrator, the account is back to "Standard"!  Any idea what's up?

    Thanks

    Dan

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-27T15:12:51+00:00

    Even i am facing the same problem . There are no other Administrator Accounts . Whenever I click on Manage accounts it will ask me to type admin password but "YES" button is disabled .

    please assist. please find the attached image 

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-19T14:32:29+00:00

    It's some late answer, but it could be useful.

    I had the same trouble, It has solved registering the user at Microsoft, following the confirmation mail sent when create the account as Administrator. The trouble was even I create the account as administrator, this was stored as Standard and change to Administrator as soon as I register the account through confirmation mail.

    XP is better OS, remember Microsoft guys had troubles with Window 8 when a tablet hung up in middle of presentation

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-21T00:31:25+00:00

    i can't change my account from standard account to administrative. it is saying " the program is blocked by group policy" what eles can i do how can i change it. i'm running windows 8.1

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