Windows 10 for my daughter with a hidden administrator or admin password?

Cr
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My daughter gets a laptop, only she should appear as a user in the login screen / spear screen. But your account shouldn't have administrator rights. How do I do that?

I found out how to activate or deactivate the "real" administrator account via PowerShell, but after deactivating there was no administrator at all, that is: if I needed administrator rights in my daughter's account and the corresponding window came up in which to do that If you enter your password, everything is grayed out there!

Br

I assume the daughter should not find out that there's another account and that she does not have all rights. But that won't work, as soon as the tries to install a program a request for the admin account will come and then you will know it anyway

St

Create a user account with admin rights and a password
withdraw the rights from the daughter's user account, i.e. Convert it to a standard user account

You can do the whole thing in the Windows settings under user accounts. If your daughter now does something that requires admin rights, then she can no longer simply confirm this and "click away", but must enter the password from the admin account, which she does not know. But you will not be able to hide that, which would also not help.

Pa

The built-in administrator account is deactivated by default. When you set up and configure Windows for the first time, this is automatically an administrator account.

You seem to have deactivated your daughter's (first) account, while the built-in one is not activated anyway.

The better way would be to set up an administrator account and then a guest account without any rights.

Cr

Ok, thank you. But how do I get the admin account invisible on the login screen. It doesn't necessarily have to be. It's supposed to be your laptop, so I don't want to appear in the menu.

Pa

If I see it that way, let them have a normal admin acct.

St

Under Windows 10 there's no longer a guest account, there are only accounts with administrator rights or user rights.

St

If you have deactivated or deleted the last account with administrator rights, then you can only reset or reinstall Windows. Then proceed as described in my answer. Then you can also try the following tip:

https://www.pctipp.ch/praxis/windows/windows-benutzer-account-verstecken-1987207.html

However, I don't know what effect this would have if the last account with administrator rights was hidden in this way. In the worst case, you will have to reset Windows or reinstall it.