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I disabled my Administrator account, and now I am left with no admin account

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So, I got this fixed.

I had to boot into safe mode, and then over there, while signing in, my Administrator account(The one which I had disabled) was present. I selected it, entered my password and you know what I did further. 

Go ahead and create another administrator account and set it a password and done!

And that's how I got back the password field for the UAC prompt and now I am able to get administrator privileges.

Thanks to each one of you who helped me.

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Hey guys

I have some serious issue here. 
How it started: Earlier I had an administrator(lets call it earlieradmin) account which had a password. And another account was a standard account(no admin rights). Now, I learnt that there was a built in administrator account in Windows and so I enabled it with:

net user administrator /active:yes

Then I set a password to the administrator account and then, I just deleted the 'earlieradmin' account. And then my mistake: I disabled the administrator account(net user administrator /active:no). And now, whenever I need admin rights on my standard account, all I see is the UAC prompt asking me to allow the app admin rights, but no way to enter the password. The only option over there is the "No" button.

 

What I have tried:

I have accessed cmd from the startup repair(or whatever) and then used the administrator(yes, it did allow me to enter cmd with that account with the password) and then enable the administrator account with:

net user administrator /active:yes

But then when I exit cmd and go to run an app with admin privileges, the issue is the same. I also tried to add a new account from the repair cmd and adding to the administrators group, but it just doesnt work. The account doesnt get added and its the exact same.

 

Please help me out

 

EDIT: This is Windows 10 Home

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

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Yeah um... interesting...

 

too bad it's not Linux. Is there another account on the PC you can grant administrator to from CMD, or make a new admin account?

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Thanks for the reply.

No, I dont have any other account on the PC.

 

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 

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Just now, LTTfan2006 said:

Thanks for the reply.

No, I dont have any other account on the PC.

 

Then make one with admin rights from startup repair, then log into the account without a password? Also make sure to quote people so they see your replies

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1 minute ago, TheCoder2019 said:

Then make one with admin rights from startup repair, then log into the account without a password? Also make sure to quote people so they see your replies

So you mean to go to the startup repair cmd, and then 

net user /add <some username>

Is that right?

And by the way, my account is a standard one, not an administrator. So I cant just make a standard user an administrator one

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 

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Just now, LTTfan2006 said:

So you mean to go to the startup repair cmd, and then 

net user /add <some username>

Is that right?

Something like that. Then grant that account administrator. Look here for the syntax

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Can you try making an account from the recovery environment and giving that admin permissions? If it doesn't let you do that then you may need to consider putting a Windows Password Recovery tool on a USB and booting to it.

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1 minute ago, TheCoder2019 said:

Something like that. Then grant that account administrator. Look here for the syntax

I have already done that, as I mentioned in the first post. I added an account:

net user /add <username> <password>

 

then  

net localgroup administrators [username] /add

But that wont work

 

 

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 

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7 minutes ago, LTTfan2006 said:

And by the way, my account is a standard one, not an administrator. So I cant just make a standard user an administrator one

In recovery (from install media) you should be admin anyway

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What I am doing:

 

Click the restart button while holding down the shift key. Then in the repair menu, I get into the cmd and over there, I can get admin privileges by entering my administrator password. And that's how I am adding a new administrator account. But everything remains the same, there is no new account added for some reason.'

 

Is that what you guys are asking me to do? Hope I am not getting something wrong.

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 

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So guys, I went into the cmd of the repair options, and then I tried:

net user <my current username>

 

But then: 

the username could not be found.

 

This username is the user which I have logged onto, and I know that it exists. 

So what I think is, the cmd is looking for and adding new users to some other directory or whatever, and not the main directory. I dont know how to explain this, but I feel you can help me out with this. Thank you so much for your help.

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 

 ^

 

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So, I got this fixed.

I had to boot into safe mode, and then over there, while signing in, my Administrator account(The one which I had disabled) was present. I selected it, entered my password and you know what I did further. 

Go ahead and create another administrator account and set it a password and done!

And that's how I got back the password field for the UAC prompt and now I am able to get administrator privileges.

Thanks to each one of you who helped me.

On 4/5/2024 at 10:13 PM, LAwLz said:

I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 

 ^

 

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