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
    2018-02-22T12:09:27+00:00

    If you have a dvd or usb for your windows, Then you can try to erase everything on your pc , i hope you have put everything ontime in your onedrive and configured it for automatic update then you can retrieve everything once you reinstalled windows.

    1. So  close  pc and unpluge all your devices and out of the socket
    2. Then open your computer and search for the battery from the bios. It's shape is the same as the one in a wristwatch.
    3. Pull it out and wait for een hour or so.
    4. After that waiting, you can reinstall the battery and close back the pc.
    5. Start-up pc with nothing extra atteched , only mouse and keybord Immediatly push f2 ,        so you could enter bios.
    6. Only change time and date and verified the info presented.
    7. Then go the tab where you see your diskdrives with the boot order, so instead of harddrive you put cd/dvd first, but usb is also possible. It depends on wich device your originall windows set-up is posted.
    8. Close bios with F10 en confirn with Y, otherwise all your changes will disappear.
    9. Now the pc restarts try to interupt so you can put in your cd or usb
    10. In most cases your pc will ask to push a random button to confirm booting from device in some cases you have to push a Fn button like F12 and from there you can choose your device.
    11. As everything goes as should then your pc will present your windows set-up. Do not choose reinstalation/ recovery cause then it restarts window in a previous matter and thats not the purpose. So make sure that you do clean/new istallation.
    12. confirm on the question to move the previous window to win/old and wait untill set-up is done.
    13. After that let it restarts and wait untill windows is presented. Windows will ask all kind of questions, like acktivating, settin pasword and all of that stuff. Try to decline for all with       "ask me later"
    14. If it went like i presented here than you should have acces to windows by know.
    15. From here on its up to you to regain your  apps and stuff like that

    Easiest and most preffered is start up a browser on your pc. Go to microsoft website. Log in your account and voila back is your own windows, cause  know you can change your acount and pasword because you have acces to email as a verrification and in most cases a cloud entree where the backup and all that stuff is. Hope you endured well?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-22T14:02:59+00:00

    thank you for the very detailed explanation of how to do this. not skipping steps is very very important so I will follow this down to the detailed letter

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-22T20:19:37+00:00

    Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me !!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-16T10:39:36+00:00

    I do not have an administrator user and want to put book1 with formats in Excel Xlstart folder with formats.

    I tried to change my user to administrator but when apply and select OK it does not save.

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