disable administrator

chazb · 12 Sep 2023

I am running Window 10.
So this is what happened, a couple of days ago i turned on my Laptop to discover that my battery was really low, and being a dummy, thinking I could run it on raw power I clicked on the Administrator button, thinking this would help. It didn't. So I turn off my laptop and leave it plugged in, for a few days. Now I turn on my Laptop as Administrator and that is bad. How do I disable Administrator?
I have tried running the cmd prompt, (net user administrator /active: no) and that didn't work. i have tried other things using the control panel, to no avail.

spunk · 12 Sep 2023

When you start your computer, you should have the option to login as Admin or your old User Account. Choose your User Name Profile instead of Admin

Ghot · 12 Sep 2023

If you don't see that option... when you are ON the administrator account choose: "sign out"

Paul Black · 12 Sep 2023

Hello @chazb,

You are probably a Local Group Administrator which is different to the one you ran. Have a look at this:

> To Determine Account Type of Users in Command Prompt

I hope this helps.

Samuria · 12 Sep 2023

If you disable wdmin its a brick you cant make a lot of changes and install many things

chazb · 13 Sep 2023

It is the little things that count, when I opened the cmd prompt I would type "net user administrator /active: no" it went nowhere, BUT when I omitted the space between the colon and no, "/active:no" the problem was solved.

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chazb said:

It is the little things that count, when I opened the cmd prompt I would type "net user administrator /active: no" it went nowhere, BUT when I omitted the space between the colon and no, "/active:no" the problem was solved.

Once you have enyered the proper comand, reboot