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I can't elevate to administrator on my installation of Windows 10. When I try, I get the normal message:
Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your PC?
There is a "Yes" button and a "No" button, but Yes is grayed out. This happens no matter what program I try to elevate. I can't even run an elevated command prompt or get to the Control Panel because this message just blocks me.
This all started with the question of how to let Windows and it's default permissions let me install my backed-up fonts from the previous machine.
whoami /all
produces:
User Name SID
========================= ============================================
desktop-tq1ddhd\matdoidge <redacted>
GROUP INFORMATION
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Group Name Type SID Attributes
====================================== ================ ============ ==================================================
Everyone Well-known group S-1-1-0 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
BUILTIN\Users Alias S-1-5-32-545 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE Well-known group S-1-5-4 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
CONSOLE LOGON Well-known group S-1-2-1 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users Well-known group S-1-5-11 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\This Organization Well-known group S-1-5-15 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Local account Well-known group S-1-5-113 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
LOCAL Well-known group S-1-2-0 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\NTLM Authentication Well-known group S-1-5-64-10 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
Mandatory Label\Medium Mandatory Level Label S-1-16-8192
PRIVILEGES INFORMATION
----------------------
Privilege Name Description State
============================= ==================================== ========
SeShutdownPrivilege Shut down the system Disabled
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege Bypass traverse checking Enabled
SeUndockPrivilege Remove computer from docking station Disabled
SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege Increase a process working set Disabled
SeTimeZonePrivilege Change the time zone Disabled
There are no other admin accounts on the computer. How do I get administrative privileges back?
What is the output of
whoami /all
in a non-elevated command prompt? – Ben N – 2015-12-31T18:10:34.497@BenN added the output to original post. – Doidgey – 2015-12-31T18:14:24.020
1According to your WhoAmI it looks like you're not using an Administrator account (not a member of
BuiltIn\Administrators
), that could be why. Join your user to the Administrators group and try again, and/or make a new Administrator user and try with that account. Also, you say "This all started with a question to let Windows and it's crappy permissions let me install my backed up fonts from the previous machine." What does that mean exactly? What Question? What did you do at that time to try and fix that problem? If you revert what you did then, does the UAC prompt work as expected? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-12-31T18:25:24.267If the built-in Administrator account is disabled and you are using a normal User that would describe this behavior. – Ramhound – 2015-12-31T18:43:38.373
@Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Originally I was trying to copy over a backup of my fonts from a previous Windows install. However the permissions on my user account will not let me copy the files from the backup to the fresh install. How can I join this user to the admin account - at the moment it's not letting me doing anything. I seem to be blocked from performing most things. – Doidgey – 2015-12-31T20:58:19.250
There are no other admin accounts on the computer.
Which makes it no admin accounts at all, since the one you use is not an admin account. That would be pretty unusual. Maybe you should provide more context on how Windows was installed, and how it ended up without any admin accounts at all. – dxiv – 2016-01-01T04:04:05.787