Friday, January 14, 2022

No administrator access in Windows 10

 I recently ran into a PC where the administrator account was forgotten.

To get into such a PC:

1. Restart into Safe mode with Command Prompt (to restart into safe mode, hold 'Shift' while restarting).

2. To actually get into Safe mode, go to Troubleshoot -> Advanced options -> Startup Settings -> Restart.

3. In the CMD, run net user administrator /active:yes (or just net user administrator to the the status).

4. Restart, this time into Safe mode with networking. It should login as the administrator user where you can create a normal user and give them admin rights.