How to merge a User account with the administrator account.

I am a complete fool at this stuff which has perplexed me for years.

I am also neurologically disabled with DCD/dyspraxia - and dyslexia which contributes to difficulties staying focused and following sequences.

I shall try to explain my difficulty.

I want to use the show history procedure across my devices.

I understand I have to do it via Cortana - I followed the links I received -

I am not sure what they were now and tried to sign in as instructed but - I was shown my USER account as separate to that of the Administrator Account -

I want to keep the existing administrator account - which the person who set up my PC years ago simply called "owner" and make my Microsoft account become the Administrator/owner in order to continue with all the settings I now have.

Have I made any sense?

Can you suggest how I go about this or direct me to a tutorial please?

I do have the May 2010 - 2004 update installed and as far as I am aware my PC has all the windows updates available.

Thank you if you can after any simple steps help.

Hello Andrew,

Just to verify with you, it sounds like you are wanting to switch your local account named "Owner" that is an administrator account to be a Microsoft account.

If so, you can use the method in the tutorial below to switch it to be a Microsoft account without losing anything, and it will still be an administrator account.

Switch to Microsoft Account in Windows 10

AndrewSWHatton said:

I am not sure what they were now and tried to sign in as instructed but - I was shown my USER account as separate to that of the Administrator Account

Andrew,

I'd like to check why you think the accounts are separate because there have been cases of misunderstanding before.

1 So, ignoring everything else you are trying to do just for now [in order to keep things as simple as possible], please describe what makes you think your user account is separate from another account [the one with Admin rights].

- Include a screenshot if it helps to explain [or just describe/sketch any dialogs that appear]

- I might be wrong but sometimes a dialog like this one might be involved so you can just refer to this if it is useful

2 I'll probably have to follow up asking for additional info so please can we also do most of this now. I've included detailed instructions just in case you have not done anything like this before. The command just shows you information; it is not doing anything to your computer.

- Right-click on the Start button and click on Windows Powershell [or, if it appears instead, Command prompt]

- Type in this command then press the Enter/Return key

Code:

net user

- In the results, click your mouse and drag it over the results until they are all highlighted {they will be highlighted as you move over them}

- Press the Control and C keys at the same time to copy the selected text

- Come back here and click your mouse in the Quick reply box then press the Control and V keys at the same time to paste the selected text in a reply

- I will explain anything you want from all that but thought that it would be best to keep these instructions as brief as possible.

Denis

Andrew,

If you mean when you get to step 7 below, then you would need to enter the password of the local account instead of for the Microsoft account you are switching to.

Switch to Microsoft Account in Windows 10

Please go ahead and post the full screenshot of that settings page showing everything. Be sure to black out any personal info first though.

AndrewSWHatton said:

Err - that is the full screenshot.

Like below instead of just a bit of the left pane. You may need to drag the border of the window over more to see all of it.

...or are you saying your settings page is blank instead of seeing something like below? Does closing and reopening Settings help?