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by: Lars Anders - Sun, 29 Jan 2023 04:18 UTC

C:\Windows\system32>su administrator
'su' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I am the only one who uses my laptop and I set it up normally (as I recall)
something like five or more years ago, and I've never logged into the
administrator account explicitly.

When I right click to run as admin on an executable it doesn't ask for the
password when the User Account Control box comes up.

When I want to open an admin command prompt, I use the search to find the
"Run as administrator" shortcut which doesn't ask me for a password when
the User Account Control box comes up.

Or I just type Win+R > cmd {ctrl+shft+enter} which does the same thing.

Then in the command prompt I ask "whoami" and it says "you/you" and not
"admin/admin" which works for me because I have admin permissions.

But how would I even know what the admin password is that I set years ago?
Obviously I'll have to use trial and error (I have ideas what it could be).

But is there a way from my user account to "log into" the admin?
Sort of like how Linux has the switch user "su" command?

C:\Windows\system32>su administrator

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by: WolfFan - Sun, 29 Jan 2023 15:13 UTC

On Jan 28, 2023, Lars Anders wrote
(in article <tr4s21$cp79$1@paganini.bofh.team>):

>
> C:\Windows\system32>su administrator
> 'su' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.

’su’ is a Unix command. It’s not available in MS command line.
>
>
> I am the only one who uses my laptop and I set it up normally (as I recall)
> something like five or more years ago, and I've never logged into the
> administrator account explicitly.

Unless you set up a separate standard account, you are logging into an admin
account, the account set up when you first set up a WinBox is an admin
account. You can also set up the built-in admin account; until Vista it was
live automatically, since Vista you have to enable it. See, for example,
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-disable-built-in-administrator-
account-windows-10/
>
>
> When I right click to run as admin on an executable it doesn't ask for the
> password when the User Account Control box comes up.

You probably are using an admin account.
>
>
> When I want to open an admin command prompt, I use the search to find the
> "Run as administrator" shortcut which doesn't ask me for a password when
> the User Account Control box comes up.

You almost certainly are using an admin account.
>
>
> Or I just type Win+R > cmd {ctrl+shft+enter} which does the same thing.
>
> Then in the command prompt I ask "whoami" and it says "you/you" and not
> "admin/admin" which works for me because I have admin permissions.
>
> But how would I even know what the admin password is that I set years ago?
> Obviously I'll have to use trial and error (I have ideas what it could be).
>
> But is there a way from my user account to "log into" the admin?
> Sort of like how Linux has the switch user "su" command?
>
> C:\Windows\system32>su administrator

Enable the built-in, and switch users.

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by: cris - Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:21 UTC

Subject	Author
C:\Windows\system32>su administrator	Lars Anders
Re: C:\Windows\system32>su administrator	WolfFan
Re: C:\Windows\system32>su administrator	cris