My user account on Windows 10 is administrator. However if I ever need to use an elevated command. a pop-up requests me to type in another administrator's password. This seems odd. Have you had a similar experience?
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It sounds like your account isn't really an administrator. You should only be asked for the password of another administrator account when you are signed in as a standard user, an administrator should just be asked to click 'Yes' or 'Continue'.
Open a Command Prompt (Admin) and typeNET USER <your account name>and look at what it says for 'Local Group Memberships'.
Determine Account Type in Windows 10
Hi Bree, thanks for your response. I agree with you and I did register as an admin.
I specifically checked the account and it showed me as a standard user 😟. I corrected that but even after a reboot I still had to use the other accounts password.
Clutching at straws I have run PC repair. I’m still hoping something can tell me exactly how to correct this!
You can setup multiple users to be "Administrators" so that no other user info is needed to install programs, or you can use a Standard account to block other users of the machine from installing stuff or making changes. You just make those changes in Settings for the particular user.
Thanks, Bro69, I am already aware of what you say. You are quite correct. The problem is, when setting up an admin, the admin privileges are not assigned to that user 🙂
That doesn't sound like it should be possible (and I have never seen it myself) but apparently it can happen. See this thread on the Microsoft forums for an example.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...4-a2c7ab5370d3The issue could be either Read Only or Lost Administrator Privileges, both of which are chronic issues with Windows 10 mostly caused by Account Corruption. I'll give you fixes for both...
There are a number of possible solutions offered. This is one of those cases where an answer on the MS forum directs the OP to a Ten Forums tutorial as a solution. In this case one suggestion is to enable the built in Administrator account using this tutorial...
Enable or Disable Elevated Administrator account in Windows 10
then sign in to Administrator and use it to create a new local admin account. If that new account works correctly then you can move your files over to it and use that new account instead of the old possibly corrupted one.
Some people in the past have claimed to have repaired a defective Admin account by
- demoting it to a Standard account
then
- re-promoting it back to an Admin account
about six times. You'd need to be signed into that functioning Admin account {the "another administrator's" one} to do this.
It does make some sort of sense in that you'd be giving Windows six chances to modify the user profile correctly for a change.
I think this action would be your only method of achieving a repair rather than having to create a replacement account.
I've read the MSA forum post Bree gave you a link to and I do not think any of its suggestions are going to help you at all.
- You would not benefit, for example, from enabling the Built-In Admin account because you still have a functioning Admin account on your computer.
Personally, I'd go overboard in my preparations - new system image, driver backup, new backup of all user files, …
Best of luck,
Denis
How much trouble would it be to create and use a new admin acct? You would have to set things up, but may get away from whatever bug has affected your current acct.
Thanks to everyone who has kindly tried to help me. I have tried the majority of suggestions listed. In the end I used a PC repair program and now all seems to be well.
FYI I used tweaker.com's PC repair.
Brian
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