Windows 10: Windows 10: Administrative account getting permission denied

I recently installed windows 10 on a new computer. Now the only account, Alex A Microsoft account, on this computer is an Administrative account. However I get permission denied errors for applications like Steam. In this case I would have to run Steam as an administrator to stop getting the errors. On my old Windows 10 computer I never had to run Steam as an administrator so something is obviously wrong with my account permissions.


Note: I activated the built in Administrator account and signed into that account and was able to run Steam NOT as Administrator and got no permission errors. I also created a local account and set it to Administrator however I got the same permission error as my Alex account.


My only account:




Example of lack of permissions:



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no administrator permission

Hi Ryan,

Let us assist you to have an Administrator permission. To start, follow the steps below to enable the Windows Super Administrator Account.

• Type CMD on the search box.
• CMD will appear at top.
• Right click on it, then choose Run as administrator.
• Type this command & hit Enter: Net user administrator /active:yes.
• After you enable the Super Administrator account, log out on your existing account then log into Super Administrator account.
• On the Super Administrator account, you can now create an Administrator account or give Administrator permission on the existing account.

After you created an Administrator account, we suggest that you disable the Super Administrator account by following the same steps and using this command:
Net user administrator /active:no.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Permission denied

Hi,

The permission denied error normally appears if you are not using the admin account to run a specific program. To help us identify the appropriate solution to your concern, we'd like to ask for additional information. Kindly answer the following:

• Are you running the program as administrator when the error appeared?
• What build and version of Windows 10 are you using?
• Can you please show us a screenshot of the error message?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?

We hope to hear from you soon.

 

Administrative Permissions Denied

I'm running Win 10 on an Asus gaming laptop. I am the only user and I am the administrator. When I try to open some files, logs etc I get the message " You do not have permission to open this file. See the owner of the file or an administrator to obtain
permission." I have looked at the permission settings in Properties of some of these files and am unable to read, or change anything because I don't have permission. In User Accounts I am the only listed user/administrator. How do I re-set the permissions?