WHY CAN'T I RUN THINGS as ADMIN EVEN THOUGH I AM THE ADMIN!!

[louislivolsi]

When I logged on to my computer I went to go run task manager for something and nothing happened. I thought it was weird so I tried to run device manager so see if that would launch and still nothing. I then began to launch other programs and those all ran normally but when i tried to run something as admin nothing would work! I looked some stuff up online to see if there was a fix for this but all I saw was people saying to go into CMD as ADMIN which I can't do. Other sources said to go into the registry to try and fix the problem, yet I still could run regeit either! No matter if I right click and try to run something in admin or weather there is a little admin shield by what I am trying to run it won't work!

I booted into safe mode where I was actually able to get the task manager as well as the device manager working, but anything else that had admin restrictions would NOT LAUNCH. I will click on something that requires admin my mouse cursor will just have the blue loading symbol for roughly 5 minutes and then just give me errors saying windows can't access that device, file, because it the path can't be specified! I feel like there should definitely be a way to fix this through safe mode, PLEASE HELP!

 

[Darkbreeze]

What you feel like and what reality is, are apparently not the same thing. This does not sound like a permissions problem as much as it sounds like a corrupt installation problem. Whether that is from past attempts to edit permissions, from an infection or from some other problem I can't say but the behavior you describe is not typical of a lack of permissions as an admin.

I'd highly recommend doing a clean install, assuming your are running Windows 10 which of course you did not bother to specify.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3567655/clean-installation-windows.html