How to restore an admin account after being blocked-sign-in is applied on windows 11 home

Question

Dear Community members,

I created two user accounts on my daughter's computer. One with an administrator right for myself and the other with a standard right for my daughter. By mistake, I put a blocked sign-in in mine . Now, only my daughter is able to sign in, but some of the applications requiring admin rights no longer work. Keep asking her for an admin information. I tried to bring up a built-in administrator which comes with Windows 11 Home by using command prompt, powershell, and control panel users, however, they all required me to provide admin info; there was no place I could type in. I even tried the power management tool, but it didn't show users group ( saying I only have the standard right).

Is there a way I can get my administrator account restored or use built-in administrator? I hope I don't need to reset Windows back to factory setting because my daughter has lot of apps and settings on her computer.

Your help will be greatly appreciated

Sincerely

Al Leung

Answer 1

Hi,

You can try to enable the built-in local administrator account. To enable it, start your computer in Safe Mode and open Command Prompt to run the command

net user administrator /active:yes

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

---

If the Answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it.

Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.