Made a boo-boo - now can't run Sticky Notes

I somehow managed to enable the built-in administrator account - now Sticky Notes won't run, but I get this:



it says
The app cannot be run
Sticky Notes cannot be run using the built-in administrator account.
Log in using another account and try again.

But there is only one account: mine, with admin priviledges. As this is a one-person household there was no need to create user accounts.



I have googled the phrase 'how disable built in administrator account windows 10' but get nowhere with the suggested solutions. What to do?
Thank you.

It appears you may have done more besides enabling the built in Administrator account, do you have Pro and have you been setting policies? Besides, your second screenshot clearly shows you are not logged in as Administrator, but as Göran, your normal user account (which is an administrator - but not the Administrator).

Your account is behaving as if it's the Administrator. One way to do this was found by @Kari on another thread with the same problem as you. The user had created the problem...

.... by going to the "Local Security Policy" > Local Policies > Security Options and disabling:
User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode
User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account

Kari's answer was...

By disabling the Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in administrator account, you in effect switched your local admin account to built-in admin account. It still is a local admin account but when running applications it runs all of them, without a possibility for you to change it, in elevated admin mode. That naturally makes it impossible to use Windows Store apps because they cannot be run as built-in admin, elevated.

Enable the security policy to be able to run Windows apps.

App can't be opened using the built-in administrator account.

If this is what you did, then undoing the policy changes you made will put things back to normal.

Whether or not the built in Administrator is enabled seems to have nothing to do with your problem. You can leave it enabled or disable it without affecting your user account, it's your choice. There's a tutorial on this.

Enable or Disable Elevated Administrator account in Windows 10

Bree to the rescue! Thank you for the informed, comprehensive and easy-to-follow reply. '...do you have Pro (yes) and have you been setting policies? (maybe...)'
'See, I had been fiddling with Ultimate Windows Tweaker just then and had made a mistake in there. Using secpol.msc I enabled Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode (was disabled). Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account was already enabled.
After reboot it was all back to normal. Thank you Bree and also to Kari the Finn; paljon kiitoksia! from this Swede.

'What happened to you is exactly why I strongly advice all users to forget all tweakers and optimizers. First, they can do nothing that couldn't be done with native Windows tools. Second, the risk to brick your PC increases exponentially when user just clicks various options instead of studying them first, finding out what they mean and do.'I hear you Kari and stand accused... I surely will be in touch as you suggest because at tenforums is obviously where the expertise is.Since you mentioned it, I have a problem that is as insoluble (to me) as it is serious. But that's for next post.'You already solved your issue,' (ah...no. You, Kari and Bree did) 'the above rant is mostly to benefit future readers of this thread.'Rant I don't know, but it is very useful advice from someone who obviously know his sh**. I, for one, take it to heart.

Thank you for your most edifying and insightful reply. (Now, how do I up the rep of you guys? I forget how.)

Kokopelli said:

(Now, how do I up the rep of you guys? I forget how.)

Kari said:

I want to clarify why I advice against all and any tweakers and optimizers..... In my personal very subjective opinion it's better to make this as simple as possible: Do not use any third party tweakers and optimizers!

I am quite sure that if users would just let Windows do what it can very well, to take care of itself, using native tools and settings only to tweak it, we would have much less issue threads here on Ten Forums.

My 'personal very subjective opinion' is the same as yours. I avoid third party tweakers, optimisers and shells. This I feel may be the reason I've had trouble-free upgrades, first from OEM Windows 7 to the original RTM Windows 10 release, then on through all subsequent versions from 1511 up to and including 1709.

Those who say a clean install is needed at every major release often seem to be those who use tweakers.

Kari said:

You remember when Windows 8 was released? Users filling various forums with posts about how they did not like how W8 looked....

Yes, that's why when I needed to replace my dead machine I went for an older Win7 one - skipped 8 and waited for 10 :)