Completely Remove Administrator Permissions

Hello all. I recently encountered a frustrating problem when trying to save a Word document to a folder.

When I was told that I needed administrator permissions, I went down the online rabbit hole trying to find a way to get rid of them altogether but got nowhere. There were a few great suggestions by IT experts within the Windows community, but unfortunately, their suggestions didn't seem to help either.

After playing around with property settings, I finally found out how to remove the administrator settings completely. So, if you have had this problem, here is my solution below:

COMPLETELY REMOVE ADMINISTRATOR PERSMISSIONS:

1. Right-click on folder (any folder on desktop)
2. Click Properties
3. Click "Security" tab up top
4. Click "Advanced" located below the "Permissions for Users" box and above the "Ok", "Cancel", and "Apply" options
5. Here you'll see a box labeled "Permission entries" a. In the box, locate the Principal named "Administrator", and click on it once b. Click on "Disable inheritance" located below the box at the bottom left
6. Click "Apply" at the bottom right corner, then click the "Ok" option to its left

This completely fixed the problem for me, and I have yet to see "You need administrator permissions" again.

Hope this helps.