Should i enable the hidden administrator account?

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    You could try this Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10 | Tutorials

    Administrator is SID ending in 500.
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       #22

    Im going to try it out right now. Alright, so it didnt work, but i found a workaround. I basically recovered my computer with aomei backupper, and i can now sign in with the windows administrator account without problems. But i still got a problem with all my personal being completely messed up. Is it possible to transfer the settings from my old account to the windows administrator account?
    Last edited by Cerawy; 13 Apr 2021 at 20:04.
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    Cerawy said:
    I found a workaround. I restored my computer with aomei backupper, and i can now sign into the hidden administrator account without problems. Only problem i got now is that all my settings, personalizations and programs are completely messed up. How do i transfer the settings from my old account to the hidden administrator account?
    You cannot. Anyway using the hidden account as your main account is such a bad plan. It is hidden for a reason - it is too powerfull unless you really know what you are doing as it is far to easy to break windows using it.
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    Cerawy said:
    I found a workaround. I restored my computer with aomei backupper, and i can now sign into the hidden administrator account without problems. Only problem i got now is that all my settings, personalizations and programs are completely messed up. How do i transfer the settings from my old account to the hidden administrator account?
    What's your objective here, anyway!?
    You can't be Full System Administrator and a regular User at the same time, it just doesn't work that way!
    (Something tells me you just found out the hard way!)
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       #25

    You can shut off LUA and UAC for a user account in the admin group and you will have just about full privileges everywhere. For the times you don't there's a couple utilities out there (like NSudo) than can provide access to file and registry operations you wouldn't normally have.

    Aside from the security concerns I would not enable the admin account and log into it for regular use since the system is not designed to be used that way. Even so, admin can't modify every file or registry entry on the system either.
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    cereberus said:
    You cannot. Anyway using the hidden account as your main account is such a bad plan. It is hidden for a reason - it is too powerfull unless you really know what you are doing as it is far to easy to break windows using it.
    Seems like this isnt necesarilly true. I found a program that seems to do it, but its a paid program. If anyone knows how to do it without paying for a program, please let me know.
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    Cerawy said:
    Seems like this isnt necesarilly true. I found a program that seems to do it, but its a paid program. If anyone knows how to do it without paying for a program, please let me know.
    No disrespect but you are not listening. You really should not use the Administrator account as your main account. Even as a "GURU" here, I would not do it - I have in the past and made aa silly mistake and kerbam - broken OS.


    Fortunately I make image backups regularly.


    Trust me - do not go there.
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       #28

    Yeah it's risky, making a mistake or doing something incorrect can blow up the system pretty easily. Shutting off LUA and UAC on an account in the admin group provides equivalent admin access so doing that is similarly risky. Then there's fully privileged access for any malware running under the account.
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    Cerawy said:
    I think id prefer to always have elevated rights.....
    You have been told over and over again that this is dangerous and leaves you wide open to being exploited by any malware you may encounter in the normal business of browsing the web. Despite the severe warnings from everyone else you seem determined to proceed. You have enabled the built in Administrator account and now wish to migrate your user settings to it. This in itself is fraught with potential risks as some of the settings for a normal account, even a member of the administrators group, may potentially be incompatible with the elevated Administrator account.

    I cannot predict the consequences of forcing your user account settings onto Administrator, but I would not wish to try that. The potential risk of breaking the Administrator is too great. Should that happen you would have no way back, there is no other higher account you could use to repair the Administrator. The only recourse would be wipe the machine and a clean install. You should disable the built in Administrator and leave it alone, only using it for its intended purpose of repairing the PC should other accounts become corrupted.

    So that leaves you with the wish to work as if you were Administrator, but without the Administrator enabled.

    I hesitate to suggest this, as it is just as dangerous (and for all the same reasons) as using Administrator as your daily account. No, in fact I recommend you DON'T use this. But as you seem determined to ignore all our advice, there is a way to make your normal account run in Admin Approval Mode and bypass all the UAC controls effectively making it behave like the Administrator account. This does at least get round the problem of migrating your settings as you aren't changing to another account, you'll continue to use the same account.

    Policy Description
    Elevate without prompting Allows privileged accounts to perform an operation that requires elevation without requiring consent or credentials. Use this option only in the most constrained environments.
    Change UAC prompt Behavior for Administrators in Windows | Tutorials

    Please take the words of cereberus and CraigHB to heart and reconsider. They are right in saying that one false step and you could break the system beyond repair just by a careless click. One mistake and your system is toast, and that's without the assistance of any external malware.
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       #30

    I just went with the windows administrator account. It took a bit of work to get all my personal settings back again, but it was worth it. I also remember using it back in the days, and i didnt have any problems with it.

    CraigHB said:
    Aside from the security concerns I would not enable the admin account and log into it for regular use since the system is not designed to be used that way. Even so, admin can't modify every file or registry entry on the system either.
    I think, as brink said, that it's mostly a matter of personal preferences.
    Last edited by Cerawy; 13 Apr 2021 at 20:05.
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