Windows 10 Permissions denied and strange errors even if administrator

Question

I have some big issues going on, And i don't think anyone has ever seen that kind of problem. I am 15 years old and i just got my new computer that run Windows 10. At first i was super user, but since i often code, we decided to switch to admin user. Even after this change, a lot of things remained restricted. Examples: Win + R is "disabilited by your system adinistrator" or the TaskManager throw an error, i cannot run cmd inside a folder, and, most important, if i click "run as administrator" on a .exe file it just say "there is no applications to perform this action" that makes absolutely no sense, and also, why are the errors saying it's disallowed by admin? i'm the admin! The fact is that i can still use some admin features, so it's like i have half of the permissions i should have. The most strange thing is that two other users, the named admin one and my dad's one, that are admins exactly like me, don't have any of this problems. To solve this we tried a lot of things, but nothing worked, at the end we even tried to create a new admin user but it had my same problems. It's a very strange situation and i'm going crazy cause i have absolutely no idea how to solve this. I know Windows 10 is worse than 7, but i didn't think at this level. Maybe it wasn't a great idea to switch for it :(. Why that is happening only to me? If someone can help in any way that would be amazing. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello @Damus

In this case, every reduces to how the administrator rights are configured to the account and if there are other policies applied (such as Local Policies) or even some security softwares that may be installed on the computer. It would help to know how you did perform that change into Admin user, for example.

To discard other applications limiting your access in the computer, please try a clean boot: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd

Then, First of all you need to ensure that your account is member of Administrators group: Go in "Edit Local Users and Computers" > "User"s, then doubleclick the username of your actual account and in the "Member Of" tab should be only Administrators. Any other group membership would limit the access of this user.

Also make sure that the Administrator account rights are Enabled:
-Click Start and type command in the Taskbar search field.
-Click Run as Administrator, type net user administrator /active:yes, and press enter. Wait for confirmation and restart.

If you don't have access to this options, and you don't have any other username that has Administrator rights to perform this actions, I am afraid the only option would be format the computer. As recommendation,always keep a Admin user with the option "Password never expires" in case of emergency, at the same time you can use an account for everyday usage with or without admin rights.

Hope this helps with your query,

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