***YOU MUST HAVE THE WINDOWS FIREWALL SERVICE RUNNING FOR THIS TO WORK***
- Press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Escape] to start Task Manager.
- Click File -> Run new task.
- Type “cmd” into the Run dialog, tick Create this task with administrative privileges and click [OK].
- A command prompt window should open.
- Type/copy the following text and press [Enter]:
net user Admin123 MyPassword /add - Type/copy the following text and press [Enter]:
net localgroup Administrators Admin123 /add - Log off and login to the new Admin123 account. If it works correctly, you can migrate your data to the new user account. You are welcome to replace “Admin123” with your username of choice (just enclose it in quotes if it has a space, and be sure to use the same name in both commands). The login password will be “MyPassword”. You can easily change it later.
- Log off
- Log on on new account
- done *