wanting to restart the whole computer

Question

we logged into my sons account who is 11 and now he is administrator who want to just restart everything

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Answer 1

Hi @Jayden Flores

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.    

Regarding your issue, may I kindly ask a few questions to help understand it better:

• Which Windows version is your device running (for example, Windows 10 or Windows 11)?
• Is your son’s account a Microsoft account (child account) or a local account?
• When you say you want to “restart everything,” do you mean:
  • Removing admin rights from the child account
  • Resetting account permissions only
  • Or fully resetting Windows and starting fresh?
• Are there other administrator accounts on the PC that you can still sign into?

Hope to hear back from you soon.

The initial response may not fully address your needs, but it will help me better understand your situation. Once I get the information, I will try my best to find the next steps.

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Answer 2

To restart the computer, you can use the Restart-Computer cmdlet in PowerShell. This cmdlet allows you to restart the operating system on local and remote computers. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Open PowerShell: You can search for PowerShell in the Start menu and open it.
2. Run the Command: Type the following command and press Enter:

      Restart-Computer
   

   This will restart the computer immediately.

If you want to restart a remote computer or specify additional parameters (like credentials), you can use:

Restart-Computer -ComputerName "ComputerName" -Credential (Get-Credential)

Replace ComputerName with the name of the remote computer you wish to restart.

Additionally, if you want to ensure that the restart completes before running the next command, you can use the -Wait parameter:

Restart-Computer -Wait

Make sure that the user account has the necessary privileges to perform a restart, especially if you are trying to restart a remote machine.

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References:

• Restart-Computer