Only 1 user can login after removing computer from Domain. The pc lists our domain admin account as the only account I can select. It’s not offering t
I set up a new Windows 10 pc with “user” as the local account in the set up process. After installing all the needed software, I added it to our domain with our domain admin account. I then removed the pc from the domain and deleted the pc from AD (duplicate pc names, my error). Now when I boot up the pc, it only lists our domain admin account as the username (no other option), but it isn’t accepting the domain pwd for that account.
How do I get back on this pc?Thanks!
I had the exact same thing happen as the original poster. (in my case I accidentally deleted the only local administrator account before leaving the domain). And like the OP, the link by 1037 solved the issue for me. Just enabling the administrator account from the command line did not work (because it only affects the active winpe session), but loading the registry hive on the C drive and editing it as per the instructions did work. Thanks to this thread I got unstuck (I didn’t really want to start over configuring that computer).
Sometimes links end up dying so I will just copy and paste the working solution from Locked out of Windows 10: login no longer shows Administrator, but only an account that I never used - Super User 8 in case someone else needs it later:
Click/Tap on the Power button under the Start Menu or on the lower right-hand side of the Login screen, press and hold the Shift key, and click/tap on Restart. This will open a command prompt at boot. (or start computer with any windows recovery media)
In the command prompt, type regedit, and press Enter.
In the left pane of Registry Editor, click/tap on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
Click/tap on File (menu bar), and on Load Hive.
Open the drive (ex: D ) that you have Windows 10 installed on, and browse to the location below. NOTE: The drive letter (ex: C) will not always be the same at boot as it is from within Windows 10.
D:\Windows\System32\config Select the SAM file, and click/tap on Open.In the Load Hive dialog, type REM_SAM, and click/tap on OK.In the left pane of Registry Editor, navigate to and open the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\REM_SAM\SAM\Domains\Accounts\Users\000001F4In the right pane of the 000001F4 key, double click/tap on the F binary value to modify it.In line 0038, change 11 to 10, click/tap on OK.Close Registry Editor and the command prompt.Click/tap on Continue to startup back in Windows 10.
You will need the help of a Windows 10 setup/installation disc. If you have no any disc, just need to create one by burning a Windows 10 ISO file to a USB drive or CD-ROM.
Step 1: Boot Windows 10 PC from the setup disk
Connect a Windows 10 setup or installation disk into your Windows 10 PC on which you want to enable the hidden administrator account. Then boot the PC from the disk.
Step 2: Replace Utility Manager with Command Prompt
In the lower right corner of Windows 10 sign-in screen, there is an “Ease of access” icon, which is also called Utility Manager. Once you click on the icon, it will bring up a simple dialog that contains a few settings.
Now what we will do is replacing the utility manager with Command Prompt, that is to say, once you click on the Ease of access icon, it will bring up a Command Prompt dialog.
1: Once your PC boots up from the Windows 10 setup disk, you will get the Windows Setup window.
2: Simultaneously press Shift + F10 key to bring up a command prompt dialog. Run the following two commands to replace the Utility Manager at Windows 10 sign-in screen with Command Prompt. Replace “d” with your system drive name. Press Enter key after you type each command.
Step 3: Enable hidden administrator account in Windows 10
1: After executing the commands, exit the command prompt dialog, disconnect your Windows 10 setup disc, and then restart your PC.
2: PC will restart normally and you can arrive at the Windows 10 sign-in screen. Click on the Ease of access icon. It will bring up a Command Prompt dialog if the above steps went right. Then type net user administrator /active:yes and press Enter key to enable the hidden administrator account in your Windows 10.
After that, close the command prompt dialog and you can see the built-in administrator displayed in the lower left corner of your Windows 10 sign in screen.
Also you can use our free software Action1 to enable local user account remotely 1 if you need to perform this action on multiple (hundreds or even thousands) computers simultaneously or some of your endpoints are laptops not connected to corporate network at all times
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