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Kestria
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I have found we no longer have administrator rights on our own PC.
We did have a partitioned drive, but for some reason that got closed, so although we see 2 drives, one refuses to open.
On the remaining partition, where all the files are, I cannot access some folders in the root, such as WindowsApps. It says I don't have admin rights.
So I did some googling and found we can make some user access corrections in safe mode with networking.
However doing this it prompts for password when it tries to log on, I enter my Microsoft password, it says it isn't correct. No idea what's going on here!
And no idea how we lost admin rights.
NB I had disabled OneDrive a while back, which might have caused both issues noted above. But I re-enabled this, following some threads that pointed to that being an issue. But that didn't fix it.
I mainly noticed this issue as the new Xbox Windows app won't work as it needs to install add-ons, such as the Game Service, but that doesn't do anything. I go to settings on the app and click to install, it changes to install, prompts for access which I confirm, and then nothing. The button goes back to INSTALL. It was because of that, I read needing to access the WindowsApp folder (noted above), but I can't as my own PC says I don't have admin rights!
Trying to avoid a system reset.
Any other ideas on how I can give myself back admin rights?
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We did have a partitioned drive, but for some reason that got closed, so although we see 2 drives, one refuses to open.
On the remaining partition, where all the files are, I cannot access some folders in the root, such as WindowsApps. It says I don't have admin rights.
So I did some googling and found we can make some user access corrections in safe mode with networking.
However doing this it prompts for password when it tries to log on, I enter my Microsoft password, it says it isn't correct. No idea what's going on here!
And no idea how we lost admin rights.
NB I had disabled OneDrive a while back, which might have caused both issues noted above. But I re-enabled this, following some threads that pointed to that being an issue. But that didn't fix it.
I mainly noticed this issue as the new Xbox Windows app won't work as it needs to install add-ons, such as the Game Service, but that doesn't do anything. I go to settings on the app and click to install, it changes to install, prompts for access which I confirm, and then nothing. The button goes back to INSTALL. It was because of that, I read needing to access the WindowsApp folder (noted above), but I can't as my own PC says I don't have admin rights!
Trying to avoid a system reset.
Any other ideas on how I can give myself back admin rights?
Continue reading...