Windows 10: Administrator with no rights or permissions

I am logged as administrator, User account shows me as administrator, am only user but no privileges. Cannot install anything. Cannot restore. Restore denied because more than 10 days. Windows 10 64. Can't find solution.
Tks,

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Managing Administrator rights permission

Hi,

We recommend following these steps to gain access to the folders that you wanted to delete:

• Click on “Start” and type “cmd” (without the quotations).
• Right Click on the “cmd” icon and select “Run as Administrator”.
• Now copy and paste the commands mentioned below one by one and hit “Enter” after each command:
  

a. TAKEOWN /F <type in the path of the folder that you want to take access>

b. ICACLS <type in the path of the folder that you want to take access> /grant administrators:F

4. Check if you are now able to delete the files.

Do update us with the outcome.

Regards.

 

Managing Administrator rights permission

Thanks Darian, I deleted it, Changed the permissions and now I, and the other program that was needing to access it (Steam), can now enter it freely, again, thanks for the help.

 

my friend is having the same problem cant rewrite files or delete anything started last week even just did a full wipe reinstall and it goes back to not giving permission after he reboots.

 

Even tried CMD: net user administrator/ active:yes. But returned, access denied. Really frustrating.

 

You may have a corrupted user profile. Since you do not have another Admin on your PC you will have to use option 4 in the tutorial to enable the built-in admin account. Using this account you can create a new account for yourself and make it an administrator. Then when you have checked that it is working and have copied over all the data files you want from the corrupted profile you can then delete the original account and finally also disable the built-in admin account.

At the bottom of the tutorial I linked you to there are related tutorials that show you how to create a new account and how to change the account type. When you create a new account it will only be a standard user so it is important to immediately change it to an Administrator account type.

 

I appreciate your help and followed your tutorials but nothing worked. SAM either will not open or shows in use. I created a new user account as administrator, logged in as administrator. Account shows administrator and allow on every item. But still have no administrator privileges, It just gets worse. Now every time I click on anything including programs I get UAC window asking permission. When I click on "change user account controls," nothing happens. All this happened after I installed System Mechanic. I did uninstall it but the problems continue. It downloaded other programs which I thought were part of System Mechanic but turned out they are not. I can't trust Iolo again. I did not download any other program from any web site prior to or after System Mechanic. No restore option back far enough, recovery is empty (more than ten days).
all I know to do now is format the C: partition on 3 computers and reinstall everything. It will take days. Some program publishers will not let me activate the version I have. They require me to purchase an upgrade. Corel Wordperfect, Neuance, Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional Individual cannot be reinstalled on Win 10. They require a $99.00 fee to allow re-installation and others also have this blackmail policy. Again, thanks for help.

 

It does sound like System Mechanic has screwed up your installation. There are plenty of guides on the web for manually removing all the entries created by System Mechanic but some of the steps may require administrator privileges which you don't seem to have.

If anyone knows how to get you back to a working system it will be @Kari - there may be a way to use Sysprep but this is beyond my expertise. Let's see if he responds!

 

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...a.html#option1

Boot your Windows USB/DVD, from there you can use CMD to enable admin account

Or try system restore there (though I suspect SM removed restore points to prevent its demise).

 

I tried cmd net user password administrator/active:yes. cmd returned "successful. I restarted the computer and could not log in, password denied.
I finally used ios from CD. Everything went well until it restarted and now my password is rejected and I have no usb with a reset password. I created the iso cd on a different computer but that password did not work wither. How are you supposed to login after a reinstall ios from a CD.

 

Any suggestions? Neither password or PIN work after ISO install.

 

Make a bootable USB flash drive of Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Boot into it. You can:
1. Use Macrium Reflect to make a backup image of your current Windows 10 install onto another hard drive, either internal or external. Wipe the hard drive the OS is on and clean install Windows 10.

OR

2. Use AEOMI Partition Assistant to shrink the existing OS partition to as small as possible. Create a new NTFS partition in the created free space. Install Windows 10 to the new partition you create. After you copy everything you need out of the old Windows 10 you can delete it to reclaim that space.

 

I appreciate your reply. Unfortunately, I am totally unable to access Windows 10 as my password has been changed or erased. My password is accepted by MSI utilities but not windows. This all began after I installed System Mechanic and possibly a windows update. After I turned the system off and restarted the next morning, I was suddenly logged on through Microsoft.live.com and had to change to login to local. It does seem that Microsoft takes over your computer regardless of what you customize. Cannot reinstall win 10 from ios DVD nor Win 7, nor Vista, nor Win xp. I have several original windows installation disk for each system but cannot install anything. I finally purchased a new hard drive and will disconnect every other device so only the new hard drive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse are hard wired. I have spent days literally trying every possible solution. DVD ISO, USB ISO, Command line, system reset, and so on. A total nightmare.
I did make a full backup with AEOIM before I installed System Mechanic.

 

So you would recommend that people stay away from System Mechanic? Sounds like major Ransomware if it has physically locked you out of your entire hard drive.

 

This is the second time that my system crashed by using System Mechanic. I deleted it from my system for a few years. I took a second look recently and installed the trial version which crashed my system completely. Microsoft updated my system at the same time and could have been the cause of this nightmare.
No I would not recommend either way. This whole post is just my recent experience with System Mechanic. I will never put System Mechanic again. I would suggest however that anyone be very, very diligent and watch out for other programs that ilol sneaks into a download of System Mechanic. IMHO it is greedy for any company to include software from another company just for the money. The greed of corporate America 1% and politicians is destroying the very fabric of what was our unique national paradigm.
I had my identity stolen a few years ago and even with the extraordinary precautions I now use, either Iolo or Microsoft managed to break into my system. FYI, my bank account and email were compromised. My bank account was cleaned out 4 times. I reformatted my hard drive, wrote on it, reformatted again 3 times. After installing the system from a Microsoft DVD, I then set up a new bank account which was cleaned out 30 minutes later without my ever using it. In talking with the FBI I realized the keylogger was in the ram of the modem and not on my computer. I now drain my modem every 2 weeks. I have seen the idea of malware being in a modem rejected on many sites but they are wrong. Though the amount stolen was below the $50,000 required for the FBI to investigate they investigated anyway because of the sophisticated nature of the malware was clearly in my modem ram.
Anyway, any software at your own risk.