Windows 10: Permissions/Admin problems after changing Windows Key

I recently upgraded my motherboard/cpu/and ram. Originally, my Windows 10 installation was a free upgrade from a Windows 7 installation that I'd had. Swapping to new parts invalidated my activation, and I was forced to purchase a new key.

After re-activating Windows, I've started to notice that I have permissions problems across the board, and constantly have to provide myself with authority to do simple things, like renaming internal hard drives.

I do a lot of coding in AutoHotKey, and as part of automation, I have scrips that startup/shutdown various programs. I've noticed that I now have to run those scrips in Administrator Mode for them to work; otherwise, when attempting to shut a program down, they'll fail and the program will just keep running. This is how I know for certain that something in my system or profile has changed.

I tried creating a new admin profile on the system only to be faced with the same problem.

Any thoughts on how I can correct this and return to having a normal level of administrative access to my machine would be greatly appreciated. I really do not want to reinstall the OS.

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admin password?

You can reset the Admin Password using Windows XP repair; See Here for step by step.

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"You'll need to provide admin permission to..." - Problem/Need Help

Welcome to TenForums @orbatron

The permissions of that drive are associated with accounts that existed in the old Windows 7 system, but don't exist in your Windows 10. Taking ownership of the files, folders, or even the whole drive should give you access.

Fortunately TenForums has plenty of step-by-step tutorials, Option Four in this tutorial is probably the easiest method to try.

Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key in Windows 10

 

Windows 10 Permissions Issues

Hooray!!!! Thanks so much, you are a superstar. Issue resolved.

I thought the fact that "Administrators" were listed in the permissions meant that all Admins had access, but apparently not. Now I added my specific login account, it works fine.

Thanks so much for your help, these UAC things in Windows are quite confusing, I am not (entirely) stupid!!