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Logged in as admin but no admin rights?

Windows 8.1 admin

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Mashhoor

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So im on my laptop and i check my account and it clearly is an Administrator account. Actually its the only account. But for some reason i cant do ANYTHING regarding administrator access. i cant open apps or run command prompt as admin im stuck. i need help to gain admin back to my admin account. weird right? So please help cause i Googled literally for 5 hours straight and found nothing. Any help will be extremely appreciated


Edited by Mashhoor, 06 July 2014 - 06:39 PM.

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Ztruker

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So from Control Panel, User Accounts, your account shows as

 

account name

Local Account

Administrator

Password Protected

 

or something like that?

 

Can you create a new Account with Administrator rights?


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stevehall

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yes you can ..

i had a similar problem..i logged on to administrator account and created a new account ...the new account automatically changes to standard user..if that happens successfully then should be able to access admin priveledges ...


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