In one of my articles, I already wrote that you can add and change the properties of user accounts through the “Control Panel” - “User Accounts”. However, this method is more suitable for ordinary users. But it will be more convenient for the system administrator to manage accounts through the “Computer Management” console – “Local users and groups”.
To get to the “Computer Management” console, right-click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop and select “Manage”. Next, expand the “Utilities” section and select “Local Users and Groups”.
The “” snap-in is designed for creating new users and groups, managing accounts, setting and resetting user passwords. 
Local user
is an account that can be granted certain permissions and rights on your computer. An account always has its own name and password (the password can be empty). You may also hear another user account name – accountT
, and instead of “username” they often say login
.
The Local Users and Groups snap-in node displays a list of user accounts: built-in accounts (for example, Administrator and Guest), as well as real PC user accounts you created. 
Built-in user accounts are created automatically when Windows installation and cannot be deleted. When creating a new user, you will need to assign it a name and password (optional), and also determine which group the new user will belong to. Each user can belong to one or more groups.
The node displays both built-in groups and those created by the administrator (i.e., you). Built-in groups are created automatically when you install Windows. 
Belonging to a group gives a user certain rights to perform various actions on the computer. Group users Administrators
have unlimited rights. It is recommended that you use administrative access only to do the following:
- installation of the operating system and its components (device drivers, system services, service packs);
- updating and restoring the operating system;
- installing programs and applications;
- setting up the most important parameters of the operating system (password policy, access control, etc.);
- managing security and audit logs;
- archiving and system recovery, etc.
You, as a system administrator, must have an account that is a member of the Administrators group. All other users on the computer must have accounts that are members of either the Users group or the Power Users group.
Adding users to a group UserAnd is the most secure because the permissions granted to this group do not allow users to change operating system settings or data of other users, install some software, but also do not allow the execution of legacy applications. I myself have repeatedly encountered a situation where old DOS programs did not work under account member of the “Users” group.
Group Advanced users supported primarily for compatibility with previous versions of Windows to run uncertified and legacy applications. Power Users have more permissions than members of the Users group and less than Administrators. The default permissions granted to this group allow group members to change some computer settings. If support for non-Windows certified applications is required, users must be members of the Power Users group.
Account Guest provides access to the computer to any user who does not have an account. To increase computer security, it is recommended to disable the “Guest” account and configure access to shared PC resources for existing users.
Now let's see how an account is created through the “Computer Management” console – “Local users and groups”.
Create an account
When installing the original version of Windows XP (this does not mean the assembly from Zver or the like) you are prompted to create computer user accounts. You must create at least one account under which you can log in the first time you start. But, as a rule, in real life it is necessary to create several accounts for each user working on a computer, or for a group of users united common task and access permissions.
To add a new account, open the “Local Users and Groups” snap-in – select the “Users” folder – then in the right window, right-click on an empty space and select “New User”: 
In the window that appears, enter a user name and description. Also set a password for the user (you can read how to come up with a strong password for your account).
Then configure additional parameters - check or uncheck the boxes next to the required items: 
You can uncheck the box next to “Require a password change at next login” and check the boxes next to “Prevent the user from changing the password” and “Password never expires.” In this case, the user will not be able to change his account password himself. This can only be done by you working under an administrator account.
After clicking the “Create” button, a new account will appear in the list of users. Double-click on it and in the window that opens, go to the “Group Membership” tab. Here, click the “Add” – “Advanced” – “Search” button. Then select the group you want the user to belong to (we recommend the Users or Power Users group) and click OK in all the windows that appear. After that, here in the “Group Membership” tab, remove all groups from the list except the one you just selected. Click “OK”: 
Thus, you have created a new account and included it in the group.
Now tell the user (in our case Ivanov) his account name ( iva) and password so he can log in. On all computers on the network to whose resources Ivanov needs access, you will need to create the same account with similar parameters. If there is no account for Ivanov on any computer on the network and the “Guest” account is disabled, then Ivanov will not be able to view the shared network resources of this computer.
If a user account is no longer needed, it can be deleted. But in order to avoid various kinds of problems, it is recommended to first disable user accounts before deleting them. To do this, right-click on the account name - select “Properties” - in the account properties window, check the box next to “Disable account” and click “OK”. After making sure that this has not caused any problems (monitor the network for a few days), you can safely delete the account: right-click on the account name and select “Delete” from the context menu. A deleted user account and all data associated with it cannot be restored.
Access Control
So, let's say several users are working on one computer, and you have created your own account for each one according to the rules described above. But suddenly there was a need to block access to certain folders or files on the computer for certain users. This problem is solved by assigning certain access rights to computer resources.
Access Control consists of granting users, groups and computers certain rights to access objects (files, folders, programs, etc.) over the network and on the local machine.
User access control local computerA carried out by changing the parameters on the “ tab Safety” in the “Properties” window:
Setting up security for the My Documents folder
Tab “ Access” of the same window is used to control network access to shared objects (files, folders and printers) on network computers.
In this article we will talk about access control local users to objects local computer. This function is only available in the NTFS file system. If the computer has an NTFS file system, but the “Security” tab is not displayed, go to “Start” - “Control Panel” - “Folder Options”. On the View tab, under Advanced Options, uncheck the “ Use simple file sharing (recommended)” and click “OK”: 
The main concept associated with access control is Permissions
.
Permissions determine the type of access a user or group has to an object or its properties. Permissions apply to files, folders, printers, and registry objects. To set or change permissions for an object, right-click on its name and select “Properties” from the context menu. On the “Security” tab, you can change permissions for a file or folder by checking or unchecking the boxes next to the desired items in the list of permissions.
You can set your own permissions for each user. First, you need to select a user in the list, and then specify permissions for that user. For example, one user can be allowed to only read the contents of a certain file (permission “ Reading"), another - to make changes to the file (permission " Change"), and deny all other users access to this file altogether (uncheck all the boxes under “ Allow”, or check all the boxes “ Prohibit”).
To view all effective permissions for files and folders on the local computer, select “Properties” – “Security” – “Advanced” – “Effective Permissions” – “Select” – “Advanced” – “Search”, highlight the name of the desired user and click “OK” " Items marked with checkboxes are permissions for this user: 
In the same window you can familiarize yourself with the “Permissions”, “Audit”, “Owner” tabs. I will not dwell on them in detail within the framework of this article, because... It already turns out too voluminous.
If the user list on the Security tab does not include the user to whom you want to assign permissions, click the following buttons in the Security tab in sequence: “ Add” – “Additionally” – “Search" From the list, select the name of the user account to which you want to assign permissions and click “OK.” Instead of an individual user, you can select a group - permissions will apply to all users in this group. Remember these buttons well. You will do this procedure in all cases when you need to add a new user to the list of permissions, auditing, ownership, network access, etc.
Access control doesn't just apply to users local computer, but also for accessing shared files, folders and printers over the network. I already talked about differentiating access rights for network users in relation to a folder in the article.
In all versions of Windows that were released later than Windows XP, logging in with Administrator rights is not so easy. This can easily be explained by the fact that an account with Administrator rights has been blocked. Why was she blocked? In fact, the answer is simple - users logging into the system under this account expose the entire system to unnecessary risk. By making thoughtless changes, the user can “thwart the system” or severely damage it.
Let's take a closer look at why you shouldn't log in as Administrator when working on a computer. The entire operating system is in the hands of the Administrator, that is, he is able to influence the system through various settings. Curious or inexperienced users can harm the operating system without realizing it. For example, reconfigure the registry.
Sometimes there are situations in which it is extremely important to log in as an Administrator. I think we shouldn’t dwell on the question, why do this? As mentioned earlier, with the Administrator account, the settings of everything your heart desires are concentrated in your hands.
So, we gradually approached the consideration of the procedure itself, after which it is not difficult to log into Windows 7 with Administrator rights. The account itself must be part of the administrator account group
You can log in as Administrator in several ways.
1. Using the Computer Management utility:
2. Using the “Command Line”:
Instead of the word administrator, you should write the name of the system administrator.
How to log in as an administrator in Windows 8?
As for the Windows 8 system, the previous two methods of logging in as an Administrator also apply to this version.
Windows 8 also allows you to run software as Administrator. Here you need to right-click on the shortcut of the program that you want to open as Administrator. This brings up a menu at the bottom of the monitor. Among the list of the menu that appears, find “Run as administrator”, launch it, and a program will open that gives you Administrator rights.
You can also make sure that a certain program is constantly launched using Administrator rights. In this regard, on the shortcut of the desired program, click on the right functional mouse button, selecting “Properties”. Next, select the “Compatibility” tab and in it check the box next to the entry “Run the program using administrator rights.” Accordingly, click “Ok”. After such actions, the program will always open with Administrator rights.
You can do the same action in another way. Right-click on the shortcut, select “Properties” and the “Shortcut” tab. Then click on “Advanced” and check the box next to “Run as administrator”. Click “Ok” in each open window.
Each account in Windows 10 has its own access rights. Privileges can be given to either a regular user or a user with extended rights, or an administrator. If you log into the system with administrator privileges, you can do everything: change UAC, settings and administration of the local network, installing any applications - in general, really everything you want to do in the operating system.
Method number 1 - using the command line
How to use it? We launch the cmd mode on behalf of the administrator using any method convenient for you (for example, right-click the mouse on the “Start” button and select “Command line (administrator)” from the menu).
Now that you are logged in, enter the following command in the invitation line: and calmly log in to the system with maximum access rights.
This is the most accessible, simple and understandable way to log into the system as an administrator, since it does not require special knowledge and skills, and all the necessary administration skills are reduced to a banal right-click on a menu item.
Method No. 2 - using the “Local Security Policies” snap-in
The above snap-in is an excellent tool for OS administration. You can find out more details from the article. If you haven't used it before, now is the time to join. This mechanism is incredibly functional and capable of quite a lot, so you will use its services more than once if you want to make your work in Windows 10 more comfortable and enjoyable.
We enter it using the Win+R key combination and entering the command “secpol.msc”. An alternative method is “Start” -> “System Tools - Windows” -> “Control Panel” -> “Security and System” -> “Administrative Tools”.
Finally, if you are logged into this tool, open the folder “Local Policies” -> “Security Settings” and on the right in the list of options select the option “Accounts: Account status ‘Administrator’”.
Double-click on the parameter and activate the presented option.
We save all changes, and now you can log in under the current active account with admin rights.
Method No. 3 – using the “Local Groups and Users” utility
Again we use the “Win+R” key sequence and enter the “lusrmgr.msc” command. The equipment we need opens. We expand the “Users” branch in detail and study the list of users who have access to the system.
We select the user we need and double-click. A form for user access parameters to the OS opens. Go to the second tab “Group Membership”, and here we add the “Administrators” group to the privileges of the active user. How to do this? First, click the “Add” button.
Next, in the text field of the new form that opens, enter the name of the group – “Administrators”. After that, click on the “Check names” button. The group must be identified and its full name must appear on the same form. Click OK, and the group is added to the privileges of the active user.
Method number 4 - using Windows 10 settings
Go to the “Settings” menu of the system and select the “Accounts” section. Next we need the category “Family and other users”. Here, in the section of the form we need, we perform one click on the user’s name. The “Change account type” button appears. Click on it.
As a result of such simple manipulations, a miniform appears on the screen with a choice of account type. Select “Administrator” from the list and confirm your decision by clicking OK.
Now all that remains for us is to log into the system under this user and take advantage of all the benefits of extended superuser rights.
In this article, I described several practical ways to log in as an administrator in Windows 10. In fact, such rights may be needed if you often install new applications, clean the registry, or change operating system settings. In all other cases, the rights of a regular user may be quite sufficient, and you can work successfully without administrator privileges.
Hi all. In today's article I want to show you the easiest way to how to log in as administrator in windows 7. But for this, you and I will need it; you can find out how to enable it by following the link.
Open the start menu, hover your mouse over the arrow next to the “shut down” button and select “change user” from the context menu that opens.
Next, the monitor screen will turn off and after a few seconds all the accounts registered on your computer will appear on it; you need to select the one with the signature “Administrator” and double-click on it with the left button.
Now the computer has successfully started the system under the administrator name and from now on absolutely all Windows 7 settings will be available to you.
If you are not an experienced computer user, which I am 100% sure of (otherwise you would know how to login with administrator rights), then I do not recommend staying in the system for a long time with this profile.
Because if used carelessly, Windows 7 may start to fail and then it will have to.
How to log in with a regular account?
To log in from a regular account, you need to do the same thing as I showed above, but the only difference is that in the menu that opens, you must select not the “change user” item, but the “log out” option.
Since if you select the first one, the administrator account will not be disabled, as a result, when you turn off the computer, you will receive a warning that shutting down Windows may lead to data loss.
If you saved all the data before exiting, then this problem can be easily solved, just click the “yes” button.
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The administrator account gives the user complete control over the computer. In this case, there is access to all system folders and files that are located on the computer. It becomes possible to make changes that will affect other users of the computer. You can change security settings, install software and hardware.
By default, in Windows 10 this account is not active and is not displayed when selecting a user. To log in with these rights, you must have this type of account on your computer. You can check your account type after logging in.
If your account type is not Administrator, then you will not be able to log in with Administrator rights unless you know the username and password of the account on the computer.
How to log in as administrator
How to log into windows 10 as administrator
You can use the Local Security Policy utility. To quickly enter, you can use the command line by typing “secpol.msc”. You can open it in the standard way by clicking the Start menu, selecting “Control Panel”, then “Administrative Tools”.
In the window that opens, you need to expand the “Local Policies” branch, select the “Security Settings” item and on the right, in the policies, select the following item: “Accounts: State “Administrator”. You will need to double-click on it and enable your account. The rights will be granted and upon startup it will be possible to log in as an administrator.
How to log into a computer as administrator
You can log into the system with administrator access with unlimited capabilities through the “Local Users and Groups” utility. You will need to run the command "lusrmgr.msc" at the command line. Then expand the “Users” section to see all the users that are on the PC. 
What to do if a user with rights is deleted?
If the admin account has been deleted, it will not be possible to restore it using the described methods. These recovery methods are only suitable if you do not have access to your account, for example, if you forgot your password. Then you can give your current account admin rights.
In this case, it is recommended to use System Restore.
The first method is to open Control Panel through the Start menu. Then select the “Recovery” section, then “Run system recovery”. After these steps, the “System Restore” window will open, where you will need to click “Next”. All possible recovery points will become available to which you can return/rollback, including the one where the admin account still existed.
If this method does not help, then you can try another method.
To do this, you will need a disk or flash drive with the required OS. When the system boots, enter safe mode (pressing “F8”), then select “Troubleshoot computer problems.” The Windows 10 System Recovery Options window will open. You will need to boot from the drive and select “System Restore”. After which the OS will be updated, the administrator account will be created anew. In this case, the files will not be affected and will be saved in their places.
The Administrator account gives the user full control over the computer, including full access to all system folders. However, while using this account, UAC is disabled and does not display warning messages.
By default, in Windows 10, the Administrator account is not active and is not displayed when selecting a user. In this article we will talk about how to activate this account and how to use it to log into Windows 10 as an Administrator.
Step No. 1. Launch Command Prompt with Administrator rights.
To log into Windows as an Administrator, you first need to activate the Administrator account. And for this it is necessary.
To do this, first press the key combination Windows+X and in the menu that opens, select “Command Prompt (Administrator).”
After this, a User Account Control (UAC) warning pop-up will appear. In this window, click on the “Yes” button.
This way you will launch the command prompt with Administrator rights. Now, using this command line, you can run a command that will activate the Administrator account in Windows 10.
Step #2: Activate the Administrator account.
So, after the command prompt is open, you can activate the Administrator account. To do this, on the command line you need to run the command “ net user administrator /active:yes" If you have an English version of Windows 10, then this command will look like this “net user administrator /active:yes”.
After the message “Command completed successfully” appears in the Command Prompt, you can close the Command Prompt.
Step No. 3. Log in to Windows 10 as Administrator.
After activating the Administrator account, you can log in to it like any other account on your computer. To do this, click on the “Start” button, and then click on the user name in the upper left corner of the “Start” menu and select “Administrator”.
After this, a standard screen for logging into your account will appear, and in order to log into Windows 10 as an Administrator, all you have to do is click on the “Login” button.
Some notes about using the Administrator account:
- You should not use the Administrator account all the time. Perform the system operations you need and disable this account using the command “net user administrator /active:no”;
- If you plan to regularly log into Windows 10 as an Administrator, then set a password for this account;
- The Administrator account is local, and when using this account you will not be able to use new applications for Windows 10;
- The Administrator account can be enabled or disabled through “Local Users and Groups” by running the command “usrmgr.msc”;
When working in the operating room Windows system the user has to resort to solving tasks that require elevated privileges. As standard, you can edit any files in Windows and install applications. To change some system configuration files Administrator rights will be required. Of course, you need to edit system files with caution, since at some point Windows will not start or will not work correctly.
Also, some commercial companies have an administrator who monitors computers in offices. To do this, he has elevated privileges that provide access to any location in the system.
Using the Command Line
The most common method for enabling elevated privileges is to use the command line. In Windows 10 and 7, you can use the Start menu. In the top ten, right-click on Start and select command line as administrator. To activate elevated privileges, enter the following phrase:
net user administrator /active:yes
Now you can log in using this account.
Built-in Windows 10 feature
A fairly simple method. In Windows 10, open the search on the taskbar and enter the word “ Administrator».
Click on the result " Enable Built-in Administrator on next boot." After which you need to restart the PC. 
Using the Group Policy Editor
To use this method, you need to make sure that the system has the “Professional” edition, otherwise it will not work. Open the window “ Execute"Using the Win+R combination and writing the command gpedit.msc.
Now on the left we open the following section: . On the right side of the window we find the “Administrator account status” parameter. Must be active. To do this, double-click on the parameter and turn it on. 
After Windows restarts, the user will have elevated rights.
User Account Settings
Every version of Windows has basic account settings. To configure them, you need to hold down the Win+R keys and enter the command control userpasswords2.
Go to the “Advanced” tab and click the “Advanced” button in the “ Additional user management». 
Important! In this method, the Windows edition must correspond to the professional one, since in other versions " Local users and groups"do not work.
If the entry was deleted
There are times when it is not possible to detect an account with elevated rights in the system using the above methods. In this case, her could have been deleted both users and viruses. To fix the problem, you should perform the following series of actions:
- Elimination computer problems from safe mode;
- Examination computer for viruses using various utilities;
- Recovery system image using the DISM command;
- Recovery systems.
Surely you didn’t know that when creating new article, I find topics for writing them precisely thanks to your comments. Just very often, various questions are asked, how can one do this or that? So, in order not to describe the execution of all the actions in the comments, I started writing separate articles, which in the future will allow me, instead of writing a huge comment, to provide a link to full instructions.
In general, this article is also an answer to one question, namely: how to set administrator rights for the created account. I decided to consider this topic because I was left a comment asking for help in understanding the current situation. In general, the user decided to create a new account and delete all files and documents on the old user profile. They tried to do this from a newly created account, but the system did not allow this.
This is because the new account does not have administrator rights and therefore cannot edit the personal folders of other users. I would like to note one point that when creating a new account, by default it is created as a regular user, and only then can you give it certain rights.
You can give permissions for an account in different ways, both using Windows’ own tools and using third-party programs. Which one to use depends on the current situation. So if you wanted to know how to give administrator rights to a new user profile, then read on carefully.
Setting up administrator rights for a new account in a Windows environment
So, let's start with the most common option. By the way, if you have created a new account, then all the steps described below should be done by booting from the old account, which already has administrator rights.
So, in order to give administrator rights to a new user, you should open the “control panel” and go to settings “ Accounts».
Select the user who should have administrator rights by clicking on the icon.
Now click on "".
And here you will see the main window in which we will assign administrator rights to the selected account. Further, everything couldn’t be simpler, there are two options, the first standard one which will be selected by default, and the second “ Administrator", exactly what we need. Having marked it, click on “ Change account type».
To complete the process, simply log in to your newly created profile and check the result.
An alternative way to install administrator rights in Windows
Now, let's look at another option, which is very often used by most system administrators.
To set administrator rights using this option, we will need to call the properties " Management e", which you can find by simply right-clicking on the computer icon.
In the settings window that appears, go to “ Local users", well, there in "".
A list of profiles that have been created on the computer will open; select the desired account by double-clicking on it, open its properties and immediately go to the “” tab.
Here you can see that the created account is in the “” group, but since we want to get administrator rights, we need the “” group to be indicated there.” To do this, delete the old group and create a new one by clicking on the “ button Add».
If the name of your computer appears in front of the group name, then everything is in order, just to complete and close all windows, click on “ OK" And " Apply».
This is how I install administrator rights on most computers.
Installing administrator rights using a Sonya LiveCD
What to do if you do not have access to an account with existing rights, but you desperately need to set administrator rights for the new account so that you don’t have to do it again later.
Well, if you have a password on your administrative account or it is locked, and you created a new user and did not know that he would have standard rights, then the LiveCD boot disk, which I am talking about more and more often, will help you do this. I mention it more often in articles when solving various errors.
If you are not yet the owner of such a miracle, then I recommend that you download it from here: LiveCD, and, believe me, you will need it more than once when setting up your PC.
So, what do we do when the disk is ready? Of course, we put it in the drive and boot from that disk. A boot menu will appear where we should select the line with the words “”.
After waiting for the system to finish loading, using the start, go to “ All programs» – « Passwords" There we launch the program "". By the way, we have already worked with her at .
Now, specify the location of the Windows folder using the browse button.
We select for which account administrator rights will be installed and click on the button “ Apply».
Literally in a moment a notification about the completed work should appear.
All that remains is to restart the computer and check whether administrator rights have been installed on the computer, or rather, on the account you need. These options differ from each other in that you can use the first two only if you already have access to a user with previously established administrator rights, but the third will help you in any case, regardless of whether you are a simple user or an administrator.
Installing administrator rights on the computer for any account
Some software requires administrator rights to install. In addition, the administrator himself can set restrictions on the installation of various software. In the case when you need to perform an installation, but there is no permission for it, we suggest using several simple methods described below.
There is a lot of different software on the Internet that allows you to bypass security and install programs under the guise of an ordinary user. We do not recommend using them especially on work computers, as this can have serious consequences. We will present safe ways installations. Let's take a closer look at them.
Method 1: Granting rights to the program folder
Most often, the software requires administrator rights when actions will be carried out with files in its own folder, for example, on the system partition hard drive. The owner can grant full rights to other users to certain folders, which will allow further installation to be performed under the login of a regular user. This is done as follows:
Now, during the installation of the program, you will need to specify the folder to which you have been granted full access, and the entire process should be successful.
Method 2: Run the program from a standard user account
In cases where it is not possible to ask the administrator to grant access rights, we recommend using the solution built into Windows. Using the utility, all actions are carried out via the command line. You only need to follow the instructions:
Method 3: Using a portable version of the program
Some software has a portable version that does not require installation. All you need to do is download it from the developer’s official website and run it. This can be done very simply:
You can transfer the software file to any removable storage device and run it on different computers without administrator rights.
Today we looked at several simple ways how to install and use various programs without administrator rights. All of them are not complicated, but require certain actions. We recommend that to install the software, simply log in with an administrator account, if available. Read more about this in our article at the link below.
