How to get real admin privileges on windows (TrustedInstaller)

1

I have an admin user account on my Windows 8.1 machine and I disabled UAC completely and yet I do not have full privileges on my machine.
It happens quite often that I get a dialog saying "You cannot delete/modify this because TrustedInstaller hasn't granted you access"... or something among the lines of that.
This is unacceptable in my opinion. I know what I'm doing and I want access to all my files without constantly having to go through the hassle of changing the ownership of a file.

So how do I get actual admin privileges on my PC? Is there a way to get rid of that TrustedInstaller account thing or tell Windows to use my admin account for that instead?

Forivin

Posted 2016-08-07T08:48:51.320

Reputation: 464

'admin user' is not Administrator. I think your issue stems from that confusion. – Tetsujin – 2016-08-08T12:56:37.120

By admin user I meant, that my account type is set to "Administrator". – Forivin – 2016-08-08T16:47:20.020

That's what I mean, your account type is set to the 'administrators' group, which is not the same as 'administrator' - this may help explain the difference - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/c23a5d98-3d8b-4391-851d-e5f7922de0c6?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

– Tetsujin – 2016-08-08T16:57:45.823

Okay, so if I would log in as "Administrator", I would have all the permissions to delete any files I want? Does the "Administrator" differ in any other way from normal user accounts? Could I just use it as my main user account? – Forivin – 2016-08-09T07:08:52.367

Administrator is the equivalent of root. Yes you can use it as a login account, but it's not wise to do it on a full-time basis. – Tetsujin – 2016-08-09T07:10:57.113

Could you elaborate on not wise? Is it only not wise because you might accidentally delete a system file? Because I wouldn't do that and I could always roll back; backups ftw. – Forivin – 2016-08-09T07:17:09.043

It just removes all restrictions; your call - there are many guides on how to enable it - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-administrator-account-everything-need-know/

– Tetsujin – 2016-08-09T07:54:10.650

Answers

0

You have to take ownership of the files, give your account full write permissiosn to the file/registry key. Now you can modify the files/regitry entry.

There are tools for Files and registry that provide this via easy GUI.

enter image description here

enter image description here

Do run an Application as TrustedInstaller, start the Windows Module Service, run ProcessHacker, do a rightlick on TrustedInstaller.exe, select msic->run as this user

enter image description here

Select which process you want to run

enter image description here

and click on ok to start it.

magicandre1981

Posted 2016-08-07T08:48:51.320

Reputation: 86 560

That sound like the thing that I already have been doing. As I already said, I know that I have to take ownership to delete/modify the files, but I'm looking for a permanent solution so that this isn't necessary anymore. – Forivin – 2016-08-07T17:38:59.067

Take ownership, change setting, restore permissions back to TrustedInstaller. This is the best way. – magicandre1981 – 2016-08-07T21:11:52.023

This does not solve my problem. – Forivin – 2016-08-08T06:11:27.047

sure, you want to ruin your Windows and if I would tell you how to run a cmd.exe as TI you would kill your system and so I don't tell you how to do it. Use this recommend way – magicandre1981 – 2016-08-08T14:47:01.560

As I already said a couple of times, I know the recommended way. That's not what I came for. I'd simply like to get full permissions because I always know what I'm doing on my system. Something like root access on a Linux system. In Linux I could simply go sudo su if I wanted and now nothing would stop me from doing anything. And nothing would break unless the user is stupid. ...Btw, why would running a cmd as TI kill my system? – Forivin – 2016-08-08T15:15:22.807

I added it. But if you have a damaged Windows I don't help you. – magicandre1981 – 2016-08-08T15:34:53.640

I still don't understand if you're saying that this would damage my system without any further action or if you're saying that I don't know what I'm doing. – Forivin – 2016-08-08T16:16:48.840

1the 2nd, I doubt that you know what you are doing. – magicandre1981 – 2016-08-09T05:01:45.827

No offense, but you don't know me. I know what I'm doing. I assume I could simply run explorer.exe as TI and that would pretty much solve my problems? Or are there any side effects to be expected. – Forivin – 2016-08-09T06:59:00.473

Asked: 2016-08-07T08:48:51.320

Viewed: 2 551 times

Active: 2019-11-29T15:02:10.277