My win 11 Pro (Version 25H2 os build 26200.7628) will not properly elevate rights (ex: run as administrator), Windows will NOT display a UAC prompt for the standard user to enter the password of an administrator account for approval and confirmation before allowing the action. If signed in as Administrator by default, the built-in Administrator account will not be prompted by
UAC and assigns a lower level prompt without Admin rights.
In a similar manner PowerShell will not elevate to admin privileges. The only way to get a command prompt is to do a Cntrl + Alt + Del to bring up the Task Manager and click on Run New Task then type in the command needed and click the box ‘Create this task with admin privileges.
Here are the issues that have been noted for years about PC 9-5900. Access to windows privileges seemed lacking. Recent evaluations have revealed that the Windows Operating System appears to be incorrectly installed or otherwise corrupted beyond MS tools available to the end user.
This PC was built approximately Jun 2020 with Windows 10 installed (Best Buy Microsoft
Windows 10 purchase 6/12/2020)
It was upgraded to
Windows 11 during the grace period as Microsoft moved to a newer OS (win 11) so it became Home version Windows 11 shortly after the win 10 installation.
The PC was upgraded to
Windows 11 PRO on or about 5/18/2024 with a purchase from the Microsoft Store for $107.17 in hopes this would reconcile issues with the PC. (It did not)
While the Best Buy purchase was retail the Windows 11 Pro upgrade was with the Microsoft store. The (personal email account info) account is where the resident bill of sale is located for the Pro upgrade. I have license keys for both the original software Windows 10 and Windows 11 Pro upgrade. NO hardware changes have occurred since building the machine in 2020. (SAME motherboard and SSD drive)
Review of membership of accounts reveal that rhstu account supposedly has Administrator rights (it is listed as administrator) but again will not enter into a command prompt with administrative rights. Also (wife’s Personal email account) is also on the PC with Admin privileges however it too does not respond with admin rights.
The symptoms include no Administrator Command Prompt. In fact, when requesting the Administrator privileges to elevate the UAC (User Account Control) does not even report an error or a message such as ‘access denied’. Furthermore, access to PowerShell and other administrative rights are also affected.
Incidentally the UAC under Settings is set to the second bar down (not extreme max top bar).
Admin Privileges can be attained
ONLY by going to the Task Manager and creating a NEW TASK with Administrative privileges. Which was attempted without success to make changes or fix code.
The following attempts to remedy the situation have been unsuccessfully tried and failed.
Sfc /scannow
Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
The LOG file for the DISM
command shows errors early on it the log (Don’t know what they mean)
Attempts to alter via RegEdit the HKEY_Local_Machine Windows\system32\config\SAM\domain\accounts\users\0000001F4 fails to set the value to 11 to 10 (access denied)
Attempting to create a new admin user fails from the elevated command prompt also.
Mounted ISO Win 11 USB from Microsoft and attempted reinstall of the OS from the MS Site. This too failed to remedy the situation.
NOTE: I’m self-taught on Microsoft Windows and do NOT profess high levels of intimate knowledge therefore my observations noted previously may be flawed.
