Yes, I'm using Win10 Pro. I use that on my laptops for bitlocker. The Administrator account is disabled for security precautions. I can re-enable it, but it's not enabled on my other Win10 Pro machines that I use at home, and I have full access to everything.on those.
--------- Brian On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you using Win 10 PRO? This will make it easier to access some > settings. By default you are <A> user with administrator privileges... not > THE Administrator. I will assume you are running pro. So open computer > manager >> users .... enable and give a password to THE Administrator which > is like a Super Administrator. Log in as the administrator or open things > as The administrator and you can make the changes you wish. > > > At 02:30 PM 7/31/2018, you wrote: > >> Just ordered a new Lenovo laptop with Win10Pro on it and it's a great >> machine, with one problem. I'm not able to access a lot of the admin type >> stuff (add/remove programs, bitlocker, windows updates, etc). They're >> either not there, or have a message that says "some settings are managed >> by >> your system administrator". >> >> Well, I am the system administrator, and I can't figure out how to undo >> this. I did some googling and it seems that this is due to a group policy >> setting being enabled. Articles like this say you can fix it by toggling >> the windows diagnostics on or off, but it apparently doesn't work for the >> latest version of windows: >> https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/solved-how-to-fix-some- >> settings-are-managed-by-your-organization-error-on-windows-10/ >> >> Any ideas, particularly from those of you who've managed enterprise >> machines before? >> >> >> --------- >> Brian >> > >
