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pseymour / MakeMeAdmin

Make Me Admin is a simple, open-source application for Windows that allows standard user accounts to be elevated to administrator-level, on a temporary basis.
https://makemeadmin.com/
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Make me admin unable to grant adminstrator rights #112

Closed kayjay707 closed 8 months ago

kayjay707 commented 9 months ago

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Hello,

There was a power outage and after the PC was restarted, MMA has been unable to grant this user the admin access. Upon checking the past issues, I tried following steps from this reply: https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin/issues/28#issuecomment-765240744

But the "Make Me Admin" folder does not exist under roaming. Is there any other way I can fix this?

Thanks

Jimmy-Painter commented 9 months ago

Seeing the same issue on my devices. #28 also did not work for me. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

kayjay707 commented 8 months ago

Hey @pseymour,

Could you please help here?

Thanks

pseymour commented 8 months ago

Did you check for a users.xml in both locations? See my comment right before the #28 you linked.

kayjay707 commented 8 months ago

@pseymour,

Hello, yes I checked for the users.xml file in both locations. I could not find the folder named Make Me Admin anywhere.. Please advice.

Thanks

kayjay707 commented 8 months ago

@pseymour

Could you please help here?

Thanks

pseymour commented 8 months ago

I don't have much to go on, just a screenshot that says it didn't work, and you saying the users.xml file does not exist. I don't know which version you're using, anything else you've done to try to resolve this, etc. I'm a one-person operation here, and we're doing this over the Internet. You have to provide information, or I can't be of much assistance.

For example, if you're using the released version (2.3), the users.xml file, and therefore the Make Me Admin folder that contains it, are created right after the service launches, which is right after installation. In the version that's in the master branch now, the file is created the first time you add a user to the Administrators group. Either way, I find it odd that you do not have this folder at all.

kayjay707 commented 8 months ago

Hey @pseymour ,

Sorry for that, I am using MMA 2.3 and I had already tried re instaling the MMA. But with some help, I was able to find the users.xml file, it exists under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Make Me Admin and deleting the file and restarting the PC fixed it.

@Jimmy-Painter Maybe you could find it here too.

Thanks for the assistance