I lost all of my administrator rights when I downloaded Windows 10

Zaps13 said:

Eh, all I had to do was sign back into my Microsoft account, and I was able to save to the pictures folder, and then the steps you listed work fine, as for my other problems, I've found a workaround for my iTunes, and the crashing I'm just going to have to deal with and hope Microsoft patches it in the future.

Glad you got most of the things to work now. Hopefully there will be fixes for your other problem in the near future. Now I wish I could find answers on a firefox message board, to why my firefox keeps crashing. This started before the windows upgrade.

EJ0872 said:

I did this .... "
1. Right click an affected folder.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click the "Advanced" button.
5. Click "Change" next to Owner.
6. Type your username, click the "Check Names" button, then click OK.
7. Check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" under the owner's name.
8. Click OK again. If you get a message saying "Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control?", click "Yes" and you're done.
9. Click the "Edit" button.
10. Click on your username from the list.
11. Check "Full control" underneath it.
12. Click OK.
13. Click OK again.

Repeat with all of the problematic folders. "

If this doesn't help you, I hope someone, who knows what to do, answers really soon.

I've done this multiple times. It works, but when I shut down and re-start I have to do it all over again. It won't save the settings. Like others here, my account settings show me as being the administrator but for some reason Win 10 doesn't believe it.

I don't have any administrator accounts now, Microsoft told me to do a clean install, but i cannot create the usb boot or anything without the elevated rights

WhyMe said:

Hi,

Are you able to create the bootable usb Win10 installation disk using somebody else's pc (friend/family/work etc)?

NO I am basically in the jungle over here. If I just could get that local passwddddddddd

Daveb said:

I've done this multiple times. It works, but when I shut down and re-start I have to do it all over again. It won't save the settings. Like others here, my account settings show me as being the administrator but for some reason Win 10 doesn't believe it.

@Daveb, exactly which folder(s) are you having this problem with. It might be helpful if we knew which folders to help with more suggestions.

EJ0872 said:

I did this .... "
1. Right click an affected folder.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click the "Advanced" button.
5. Click "Change" next to Owner.
6. Type your username, click the "Check Names" button, then click OK.
7. Check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" under the owner's name.
8. Click OK again. If you get a message saying "Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control?", click "Yes" and you're done.
9. Click the "Edit" button.
10. Click on your username from the list.
11. Check "Full control" underneath it.
12. Click OK.
13. Click OK again.

Repeat with all of the problematic folders. "

If this doesn't help you, I hope someone, who knows what to do, answers really soon.

I did this and it worked. I entered my hotmail account instead of my name. When I did the Check Name, it came right up and everything went as it should.

To Add Administrator Rights or Access Privileges –

How to do this –
Click on Windows icon on bottom left of screen,
Click on File Explorer>, chose file or folder with files: for one file, highlight file, click on file for one file, or for multiple files click on first file and click shift key on last file to select multiple files.
Right click to open Share With / Specific People, you will see box Choose People to Share With, Under Name Find Name of Owner, it will be highlighted in grey, if you have to choose make sure it has Read/Write chosen left click on Share Button, it will now open a box that shows your shared file, click on done.

I have used this on PDF, Word, Excel, Quicken and Photo files with no problem and it stays fixed.

I bought a new computer and transferred all of my files from the old computer running Windows 10 with a Western Digital backup to a new computer and I had this problem with every single file and picture. It really is a pain to fix every file, but it is an easy fix, just time consuming.