In Windows, every new account you create is a user account by default. Due, gets limited privileges and is restrictive. Despite this, can grant full access by converting user account to administrator. That's how.
Whether you share your computer with someone or not, keeping professional files separate can help save the day. Creating a user account is simple and you can change it to an administrator account as a backup in case something goes wrong while trying new features., especially if you need to use a Microsoft account to access certain functions to work.
Note: We are showing Windows 11 in this example. Despite this, these will work on windows 10 and also in previous versions.
Change a user account to administrator using the settings application
Using the Settings app is a simple way to change an existing user account to administrator. You can make this happen only from the administrator account on your computer. So, log in with your administrator account to continue.
To update the user account, press windows + I to open the application “Setting”.
Select option “Accounts” from the left column.
Select option “Family and other users”.
You will see the standard user account in the section “Other users” O “His family”. Select the drop-down menu next to the user account.
Please select “Change account type”.
Please select “Yes” when the User Account Control prompt asks if you want to allow the application to “Setting” make changes.
In the window “Change account type”, use the drop-down menu of the “Account type” to select “Administrator”. Press the button “To accept” When it's over.
That will update the standard user account to Administrator.
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Change a user account to administrator through the control panel
Click the Start button, scribe “Control Panel” in Windows search and press Enter to start it.
When the window opens “Control Panel”, select “User account”.
Subsequently, select “Manage another account”.
Please select “Yes” in the User Account Control message. In the next window, double click the user account you want to change.
Subsequently, select “Change account type”.
In summary, select option “Administrator” and click “Change account type” to confirm the change.
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Change a user account to administrator through computer management
You can also use the Computer Management application. This method is more complex but achieves the same result.
Note: You cannot use this method if you are running the Home edition of Windows.
Click the Start button, scribe “Team management” in Windows search and press Enter.
In the Computer Management window, select “Local users and groups” in the left column and “Users” in the middle column.
Then, double click the user account you want to change to administrator in the middle column.
When the account properties window appears, go to tab “Member of”.
You will see that the selected user account only appears as a member of the group “Users”. Then, select the button “Add”.
Scribe “Administrators” in the text field and select the button “To accept”.
In the account properties window, select “Administrators” and then select the button “To accept” to add the user account to the administrators group.
Change a user account to administrator through the Netplwiz command
Using Netplwiz gives you an experience equivalent to team management, but in a simplified environment.
Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog, scribe “netplwiz” and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to start it with administrative privileges.
When the User Account Control message appears, select “Yes”. In the window “User account”, select the account you want to upgrade from user to administrator and select “Properties (edit)”.
Go to the tab “Group membership” in the window that appears.
Please select “Administrator” and then choose the button “To accept”.
Change a user account to administrator via command prompt
You can use the command prompt to run a simple command to change a standard user account to administrator.
To open the command prompt, click the start button, scribe “cmd” in Windows search and select “Execute as an administrator”.
At the command prompt, type the following command and then press Enter:
net localgroup administrators "UserAccountName" /add
Replace the text in quotes with the username of the account on your computer. When you run this command, it looks like this:
Change a user account to administrator via PowerShell
After clicking the Start button, scribe “windows powershell” in Windows search and select “Execute as an administrator”.
Choose “Yes” when the User Account Control message appears. Subsequently, type the following command in Windows PowerShell and then hit Enter:
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "username"
This is how it will look:
That is all! Although it is a simple procedure, changing a user account to administrator on a shared computer may not be a good idea. So, if you change your mind later, you can always disable user or administrator account in Windows.
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