Recent content by gigglby

At my age you'll find yourself turning down the radio to concentrate better when driving. So for this old man's brain, reinstalling straight to the BIOS was the most straightforward and easiest attack. But it worked. I have my local user and admin rights back. Thanks to all you guys for your...

Good morning community. Update for today... I followed Spunk's, Dacrone's and Try 3's suggestion of a creating a bootable drive. I had to get another computer to make the clean thumb drive. That took a long while and several attempts, because of the weak computer I was doing it on, but late in...

Thanks Spunk. I will study your links and suggestions and let you know how it went.

I followed youtube tech AskLeo on how to download an iso copy of Windows to a usb. This is the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTi7A8C2q38&t=129s. Then I downloaded rufus from Rufus - The Official Website (Download, New Releases). When I clicked on the D: drive I got the yes-less User...

I do have a USB to which I downloaded Rufus.ie. Guess what you need to boot from your USB port. That's right...admin rights. I'm going through the "replace the yes button" info, but it's a lot for a guy who can follow steps, but is far from being computer savvy.

I am going to try your Fix UAC prompt.

Then I will try again and I'll get a screen shot or camera shot. I'll try again now.

Yes. It seems once Microsoft has overridden admin rights in Windows 11 Home Edition, they ain't giving it up.

Thanks. I tried this. Everything says successful but I reboot and am back to square one with no Administrative right.

I tried this but it requires admin rights.

Does it require administrator rights? I'll give it a go if it doesn't require admin rights.

No I don't. I did see somewhere that I could download a copy of Windows ISO to a USB, but when I saw info that said I have a home version of Windows I that it would be futile. That's when I tried to give Microsoft a hundred dollars to upgrade to pro but that requires administrator rights which I...

I have always been able to go back and change Admin rights. I had no idea Microsoft was squeezing out the options of over-riding Microsoft or Windows, I'm not stupid but I'm not a tech and I'm 73 y/o. I just didn't know what I was getting myself into by simply reinstalling Windows.