Windows 10: Unable to right click in start menu to run as admin

I'm fully up to date on W10 x64 and have just noticed that I can no longer (as in, I could a few days ago) right click on certain apps to run as admin. I can't even use the 'menu' keyboard button to open the right click menu either, this does nothing.

I *can* do so on things like Wordpad and notepad, but 'admin-y' apps like Control Panel, Device Manager, and Administrative Tools show no menu when I right click, nothing appears or happens.

Any idea what this could be cause by and how I can get it back?

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Why do I have to right-click, run as admin EVERY time I want to run an executable file wince I installed windows 10?

Hello. Thank you for your reply. I have attached a few screen shots to show you what I am seeing. When I try to change my account type, I'm already listed as the Administrator. When I try the second option you mentioned, there also, I am the administrator
already. I am the only user of this PC. I am using a Microsoft account. Not local. I am lost and don't know what else to do.

 

Why do I have to right-click, run as admin EVERY time I want to run an executable file wince I installed windows 10?

Hello,

Thank you for getting back to us with an update.

Try with the below mentioned steps to inherit the permissions and check if it helps.

• Open the properties of the main User Profile
  folder where the files are located (such as Documents, Pictures, etc.). For example: if your user profile name is
  computer then the navigation path will be C:\Users\computer.
  You can open the properties of a particular folder by Right-clicking
  on it and select Properties from context menu.
• Go to the Security tab and click
  Advanced.
• Check the box at the bottom of this window. It is labeled "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object" and then click
  Ok.

This does a one-time action that replaces the security on all the files/subfolders. It’s one-time, so you won’t find that box checked if you peek at it later.

Keep us posted if you require further assistance.

 

I had a right click issue where I could not access any menus on most of my desktop icons. Or hard drives, or files.. alot of things.

It was an issue with a 3rd party add-on that was causing the conflict.

Read my post in this thread and see if it may help.

Right-click on shortcuts and .exe's causes screen to blink + no menu - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks for the reply and link - unfortunately I've not third-part installations as it's a pretty clean system. None pink so I've none to disable and nothing looks out of sorts :/

Could you just confirm that you *can* press Win key, type device, then you're able to right click on Device Manager and get the menu to run as admin?

 

I cannot pull up any menus when right clicking on the Device Manager. Only thing I can do is to launch it. Which if you are logged in as the administrator, you'll be able to do that and make changes. I don't believe there is actually a need to have the menu pop up to run as administrator. A guest would not be able to launch device manager and make changes to the best of my knowledge.

 

Ok, thanks. Perhaps I recalling doing it but didn't actually do so before!