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2 in 1 desktop given to new user that is identified as Local user. How to change that to Administrator? That was removed and now one is not identified. Any solution or do I have reinstall Windows 11?
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Try right click Start button, open Run box, copy and paste in netplwiz, press Enter. Highlight your account, then click Properties, then Group Membership tab. click on Administrator, then click Apply, OK, restart the PC
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the run box only took me to the box need a administrator and only a NO box.
very nice tip
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Only an admin can make another user an admin. So if you have no administrator accounts on the machine, and it isn't on a domain where a domain admin can take charge, then you're effectively locked out. If you do have an admin account on the machine then you can go to the user account settings and make the user an admin.
No other user cause was PC given to me with no user. Ended up as local.
If you have no admin user then you'll need to reinstall Windows. You might be able to get away with running the setup and having it keep the existing settings but I've never tried without an admin account already.
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HOW CAN YOU MAKE ADMIN WITHOUT ADMIN
Simplest solution may be to clean install it by booting the install media
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
delete / recreate partition and continue the installation.
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You must be admin to change a standard user to administrator. Login to admin account present on the system and then you can change other user to admin level.
