Admin error

Question

Hello, 

I tried removing myself as admin because my dad kept annoying me with my little brothers constant nagging for admin password so he could download his lame games. Now that I removed myself as admin, nothing works for my little bro. before he would need to enter password and now it just says NO in a gray dialog box. What did I do? I can't even add myself as an admin anymore. Help? 

Thanks,

Bigbro

Answer 1

Hello, 

I tried removing myself as admin because my dad kept annoying me with my little brothers constant nagging for admin password so he could download his lame games. Now that I removed myself as admin, nothing works for my little bro. before he would need to enter password and now it just says NO in a gray dialog box. What did I do? I can't even add myself as an admin anymore. Help? 

Thanks,

Bigbro 

Hello,

It seems you lost admin rights. See if this fix helps you:

https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-lost-administrative-rights-in-windows-10

Let us know if this helps!

Note: Included link in this reply refers to blog post by a trusted Microsoft MVP.

Answer 2

Every PC should have two admin accounts, same as everyone has at least two house keys. Demoting your one and only admin account was equivalent to throwing away the master key to your safe.

Some machines you can boot into Safe Mode, then log on as Administrator with a blank password. This would let you restore admin privileges to yor account. You could then also create the badly needed spare admin account.

Press Shift+Restart to launch Safe Mode.