How to change a user business relationship to an administrator business relationship

Updated: 11/06/2021 by Computer Hope

Administrator profile

An administrator account can create additional user accounts, install software, and consummate other tasks on a figurer. If a standard user account needs to exist changed to an administrator business relationship, choose the advisable operating system below and follow the steps provided.

Note

The following steps crave you take access to an ambassador business relationship. If non, you lot can't grant administrator privileges to another user.

Windows 10

Windows 8, ten, and eleven

  1. Printing the Windows key, type Control Panel, then press Enter.
  2. Nether the User Accounts section, click Change business relationship type.

Change account type link in Windows 10

  1. Select the business relationship yous want to grant administrative rights.

Where to select a user account in Windows 10.

  1. With an account selected, click the Modify the account type link.

Change account type selector in Windows 10

  1. Click the circle side by side to Administrator (A) and click the Alter Account Type button (B).

Changing an account in Windows 10

Windows 7, Vista

Windows Vista and vii

  1. Open up the Command Panel.
  2. Click the User Accounts option.
  3. Click User Accounts once more, then the Manage User Accounts pick.
  4. Find the user account you want to modify under the Users for this computer section on the Users tab. Click that user account name.
  5. Click the Properties option in the user account window.
  6. Select the Ambassador group to set the user business relationship to an administrator account on the Group Membership tab.
  7. Click the OK button to salvage the changes. Click OK on any additional windows to close out the user account settings.
Windows XP

Windows XP

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the User Accounts selection.
  3. Click the user account name you want to alter to an ambassador.
  4. Click the Change the account type pick.
  5. Select the Reckoner administrator option, and then click the Change Account Type button.

Culling method

  1. From the Windows desktop, right-click My Reckoner.
  2. Click Manage, which should open the Computer Direction window, as shown below.

Microsoft Windows XP Computer Management

  1. Click the + next to Local Users and Groups or double-click it. Notation: If you cannot access this section, you lot likely practice not have administrator rights to the figurer.
  2. Click Users, and in the right pane, all user accounts ready on your computer are shown.
  3. Double-click the business relationship you desire to view.
  4. Click Member of.
  5. If the user is a member of "Administrators," that account already has administrative rights. If this grouping is not listed, click the Add together button.
  6. Type "administrators" and then click the Check Names button. If successfully found, your computer name followed by "\Administrators" should announced. For example, Hope\Administrators.
  7. Click Ok.

Later following the steps above, the account is part of the administrator'due south group and has administrative rights on that computer.

macOS Big Sur

macOS

  1. In the carte du jour bar, click the Apple icon to open the Apple menu.
  2. In the Apple tree menu, select the Organisation Preferences option.

System Preferences selector in macOS.

  1. Click the Users & Groups icon.

Users & Groups icon in macOS.

  1. Click the lock symbol in the lower-left corner of the Users & Groups window.

Lock icon in macOS.

  1. When prompted, enter your password and click the Unlock button.

User account unlock password prompt.

  1. On the left side of the window, select the business relationship you want to add administrative privileges (A), and then check the box next to Allow user to administer this business relationship (B).

Giving admin privileges in macOS.