Forum Discussion

Buffaloguy's avatar
Buffaloguy
Copper Contributor
Sep 03, 2021

Cannot run anything as administrator

Everything is working fine with WIndows 11 (latest beta build as of today) except I cannot execute the cmd command as administrator or run any program as administrator.  WHen clicking on the CMD app ...
Features
ChrisRaisin's avatar
ChrisRaisin
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2022

Buffaloguy 

 

Well, I was perplexed by this problem, but I have discovered that the latest release of Windows 11 (22H2) seems to have a problem not just with "Run As Administrator" but most things on context menus (menus which appear when you click the right-,mouse-button). I tried your "fix" with NCH applications running (uninstalled them) but that did not help.
What eventually fixed the problem of not just "Administrator" but also all other problems with the context menus was following instructions in this excellent article:
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/windows-11-classic-context-menus

It involves editing a key in the registry (so be careful).

Everything works fine now!
Hopefully, Microsoft will issue an update to remove the need for returning to the old style
(full as opposed to compacted) context menus. Personally I prefer the full menu anyway!

 

jaygi1957's avatar
jaygi1957
Copper Contributor
May 24, 2024
I am not smart enough to play with regedit. if you have another solution please let us all know because some of us are listed as administrator on our personal laptops and we are still hurting.

Resources