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need help with putting my account as administrator on toshiba laptop

Angelra2

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Dec 3, 2016
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after i did a factory reset on my laptop i tried to delete something but it said i not the administrator how do i set my account as the administrator account i have a windows 7 home premium oa c655d-s5139
 
Solution
Check in Control Panel>User Accounts to see if you're a Standard or an Administrator user. If Standard, click to change it to Admin.

That makes you an Administrator but the[/] Administrator is a higher level account and somethings can only be done using that account.

To do that, go to c:\windows\system32 and scroll down to the file cmd.exe then right click it. Choose RunAs Administrator.

A black Command form shows up and at the prompt, type
net user Adminstrator /active:yes
then hit the Enter key.

You should see a success message so close the form and restart the machine so you can log in to the new account that shows up.
Check in Control Panel>User Accounts to see if you're a Standard or an Administrator user. If Standard, click to change it to Admin.

That makes you an Administrator but the[/] Administrator is a higher level account and somethings can only be done using that account.

To do that, go to c:\windows\system32 and scroll down to the file cmd.exe then right click it. Choose RunAs Administrator.

A black Command form shows up and at the prompt, type
net user Adminstrator /active:yes
then hit the Enter key.

You should see a success message so close the form and restart the machine so you can log in to the new account that shows up.
 
Solution