Windows 10: Administrator, but dont have sufficient privileges???

i have 4 PC's all with singles users, all set up as admin as they are the only account on the PC i go to down load a driver for a printer and it says i dont have sufficient privileges ... log on again with administrator privileges.. which i have as i am the single user and admin!!!! driving me crazy

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You do not have sufficient privileges to install the program. Log on again with administrator privileges.

When installing MF237w canon printer on win10 x64 the following msg apprears

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MF Drivers

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You do not have sufficient privileges to install the program.

Log on again with administrator privileges.

I already run the laptop as admin. Thanks to advise

Thanks

Vishal

 

Dell Touchpad uninstall administrator privileges

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. We appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

From the description of the issue, I understand that you are unable to uninstall drivers from Device Manager as it prompts saying log-in with administrator privileges, we will help you to resolve this issue.

I would recommend you to see if you are logged in administrator account, if not then enable it. Please follow the below steps to enable:

Step 1: I would suggest you to enable the built-in administrator account.

You need to run the command from an elevated command prompt. To do that follow the below steps:

• 
  Press the Windows key + R from the keyboard to open the
  Run Command Dialog Box.
  
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  Type cmd and right-click on the
  Command Prompt result that should appear.
  
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  This opens a list of options at the bottom. Select
  Run as administrator.
  
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  Accept the UAC (User Account Control) prompt.
  
• 
  Enter the following command to enable the hidden administrator account:
  net user administrator /active:yes
  

Hope it helps. Feel free to contact us for any assistance on Windows Operating System, we will be happy to help you.

 

Never prompted to elevate privilege as administrator


OK, I tried Dinesh's tutorial. First, here's a list of accounts for my machine:





I held down Shift and rebooted, and got the WinRE splash screen. I was prompted to log in, with "Dan" my only option:





If I clicked on "Don't see your account", I got this:





Is it suggesting that "Dan" is an administrator account? Oh, that it were so... I went back, selected the "Dan" account, and it booted into command prompt. I then attempted the first of Dinesh's instructions:





Hello darkness, my old friend... "Access Denied."

Dan