Change Windows user to an Administrator from Ubuntu
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To get back administrator access - Boot from the Ubuntu disk and install "chntpw". Run it from the command line (as root I imagine) and you can reset the admin permissions and password. (See this guide)
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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kaukab over 1 year
I had a single account on my Windows 10 laptop which I changed from an administrator to a standard account not knowing the consequences.
I tried booting Ubuntu (16.04) from a flash drive. But when I'm renaming
sethc.exefile I get a popup showing "Error renaming file operation not supported". Please help me out of it and become the administrator user of the system.-
Burgi about 7 yearsHave you mounted the Windows drive in a mode that allows writing? By default most Linux boot drives will only mount the Windows partition in read-only mode.
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Ramhound about 7 yearsI realize the duplicate has you use WinRE instead of Ubuntu but just because you want to use Ubuntu doesn't mean it's the correct approach to solve your problem. Use a Windows installation ISO instead
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