Cannot change account to administrator!

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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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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!!

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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Anonymous

2014-02-22T01:29:53+00:00

thanks!!!
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2014-01-21T06:09:19+00:00

Can you help me?? This doesn't work for me. I accidentally changed my administrator account to standard account in windows 8. Now I can't change it back. What arrow icon are you talking about? I tried to do a system restore, and it tells me the administrator is HomeGroupUser$ and it's a local account. Where did this come from? When I tried to do the system restore, it's asking for a password. I don't know what the password is as I didn't make the account. Please help. Thank you.

Hi Judy

When you start in Safe Mode do you seee the account named Administrator?

If you do not see the Arrow Icon it means that all of the accounts are visible on the safe mode screen.

After you log on with the Administrator account, follow the rest of the instructions in my previous message.

Regards
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2014-01-21T05:53:53+00:00

Can you help me?? This doesn't work for me. I accidentally changed my administrator account to standard account in windows 8. Now I can't change it back. What arrow icon are you talking about? I tried to do a system restore, and it tells me the administrator is HomeGroupUser$ and it's a local account. Where did this come from? When I tried to do the system restore, it's asking for a password. I don't know what the password is as I didn't make the account. Please help. Thank you.
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Anonymous

2014-01-11T20:18:20+00:00

What type of computer do you have? ex. Dell, HP ect. Is it a laptop, desk, notebook? Need to know a little more about your issue, and some clairifcation on how you arrived at your present postion.
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