Can't do almost anything admin related as administrator in Control Panel

[anthonyorm]

Like the title said. I tried to change firewall settings but when I click on "Turn Windows Firewall on or off" nothing happens. Nothing happens when I click on any other option with the shield except for device manager, event viewer and disk management.

 

[t53186]

That would indicate you do not have sufficient privileges to make those changes, either your type of account is not an Administrator, or group policy does not allow those changes. Another possibility is your profile is corrupt affecting the same permissions.

 

[anthonyorm]

This is the only account on the computer, and it says its an administrator. How would I fix this?

 

[t53186]

Create a new user account that has administrator privileges. This would validate that you indeed have an administrator account.

 

[anthonyorm]

I can't create a new account, because when I click the "add or remove user accounts" button it does nothing. Is there a way to do this in cmd?

 

[t53186]

Well that confirms you do not have an administrative account,

 

[anthonyorm]

I enabled the "Administrator" account and tried to do things in control panel on there and I still can't either, no error message or anything, just nothing happens when I click on them

 

[t53186]

Just a thought can you safe boot (F8) to run safe mode with command prompt? Try some things in there. Do you have a backup of your data? If you can get to the command prompt you may be able to add / modify user accounts.

Microsoft info for using net command from the cmd prompt: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/556003

Don't dive too deep into this unless you're a familiar with running commands.

 

[anthonyorm]

I could boot into safemode with command prompt but I couldn't figure out the commands

 

[t53186]

Well then either you have someone with a bit more experience look at it, or reload windows, hope you have a backup either way.

 

[howtobeironic]

First off let's go basic and check if things go right.

Head over to User Accounts and Family Protection->User Accounts in Control Panel. There should be Administrator written under your account name. If not, that's a problem.

By the way, is there a message that pops up in each log on telling you something like group policies are corrupted and revokes admin privilleges and putting you to a normal user?

 

[LedaOhio9]

Make sure your account is an owner of System Drive?
Right click the C drive goto Properties/Security/Advanced/Owner tab
Edit list and make yourself an owner without replacing subcontainers.
Should be your account and admin.
Sounds like a corrupt policy entry but..

shrug

 

[anthonyorm]

Make sure your account is an owner of System Drive?
Right click the C drive goto Properties/Security/Advanced/Owner tab
Edit list and make yourself an owner without replacing subcontainers.
Should be your account and admin.
Sounds like a corrupt policy entry but..

shrug

Everything looks fine

 

[anthonyorm]

First off let's go basic and check if things go right.

Head over to User Accounts and Family Protection->User Accounts in Control Panel. There should be Administrator written under your account name. If not, that's a problem.

By the way, is there a message that pops up in each log on telling you something like group policies are corrupted and revokes admin privilleges and putting you to a normal user?

It says i'm administrator, and i get no message on startup

 

[howtobeironic]

"Nothing happens" seem suspicious that Windows would usually ask for a password or an error message. I suggest a full scan with your antivirus (and what brand is it) and optionally using kaspersky rescue disk for rootkits.

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