my PC account has been set to limited?

Question

I cannot change the account setting on my PC it has been set to limited ,there is no option to change accont type on the list I can change a picture that is about all .Can anyone HELP please

Answer 1

Hello,

(ANS) This issue depends upon how the computer was set up in the first place and what its designed to be used for. Windows comes with several special accounts pre-installed such as a guest account & the administrators account, a part from the user account you might have set up yourself.

Accounts:- each user will have an account on the local machine, this has a login name (username) and a password associated with it. Once you have logged in to windows with your account for the first time windows creates a user profile. These can be seen under c:\documents and settings.

Your profile is saved by windows every time you log out and any changes you've made are also saved.

Permissions & groups:-

Each account type in windows has its own permissions & is normally assigned to be a member of a user group. So the administrator of the machine obviously has the highest level of permissions to make changes & install new software or make big system changes.

Power users come next

Ordinary users come next

Guest users come last

Meaning that you account type appears to be a member of the ordinary users group and its possible that this machine was quite deliberately (in some situations) set up this way to prevent users making direct changes to the system i.e. to stop users playing or fiddling with system settings?

NOTE: The only person or way you can change the account type is via the administrator or administrator's account. Even then you would have to know precisely how to do this, its NOT as simple a task as it may first appear.

**You would also have to know the password for the administrators account, if you installed windows yourself you should have written it down.

Hope that helps?

Kind Regards Ivan

(computer veteran of many years).

Answer 2

Switch over to the Administrator account and make all changes to your user account. If you can't then you really have a problem.

I had this same problem several months ago and could not install new software unto my computer. I had my user account set with administrator privilages. It wasn't working. I could not understand how the Administrative account privilage could malfunction, but it did.

How I got my control back was to reinstall the operating system, as a repair. Hopefully you have your own purchased copy of your operating system - WinXP / 2000 / Win98

You should set up a main administrator account with full access - with it's own password, and set up a user account for yourself with limited access. This is done to help prevent Virus infection if you are online (using your user account) and get a virus - You can run antivirus programs, add and remove programs, and make changes to all accounts from the Main Administrators account. The way your computer is responding right now is actually correct, except that "you can't access the administrators account either" (I assume that is the case)

If you do this you will loose all your settings, such as screen saver, default email program, Start Menu changes, and you may have some additional icons show up in the taskbar that you had previously disabled.

It is bothersome to do this, but unless someone else has a softer, easier way, this may be your only option to gain back control

Answer 3

If you share the computer, ask one of the other users to go into the computer and access user account select your name and change your status to administrator. If not then entering on safe mode may be the answer indeed but I wouldn't know how.
good luck

Answer 4

You have to log on as an administrator to change accounts. You can't change anything if you're a limited account user.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

reboot in safe mode
log in as the adminastrator (the one that wasnt there when you werent in safe mode)
change your acout back to adminastrator and reboot
tadaa!!