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By default, a new installation of win 10 creates an account with administrator rights (belongs to the administrator group). The problem is that windows will still keep prompting me to provide admin rights for a TON of stuff, like renaming a drive. Clicking "yes" to provide that permission does not actually work...it just endlessly prompts me to provide admin permission infinitely.

I know how to enable the hidden administrator account in lusrmgr, that is not the problem.

What i am asking is whether i can somehow give my regular account called "Question" FULL admin rights exactly like the hidden administrator account. This account is already in the administrator group but that is insufficient...windows keeps prompting me infinitely for admin permission.

I have more than 13gb of files in my "Question" documents folder and my understanding is that this will be lost if i swap to the hidden administrator account so i want to give this account the full rights, instead of swapping to the hidden admin account.

I have done searches and all i can find is "use the hidden administrator account", which is what im trying to avoid.

This is not a UAC problem. Please do not recommend disabling UAC as that will not solve it.

This is window keeps complaining that i need administrator rights even though i am part of the administrator group. This is an internal 3.5 inch seagate barracuda drive.

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    On Windows an Administration account is an Administrator at least from a permission perspective. You can disable UAC on the system but on modern versions of Windows this will break things like UWP applications. There is no such thing as a “full administrator account” an account is either an Administrator or it’s not.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 12:21
  • @Ramhound Then why does it keep complaining that i need to provide administrator permissions when i am already an administrator? And clicking "yes" does not work, it just keeps prompting me infinitely for administrator permissions.
    – Question
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 14:49
  • Care to provide a screenshot? I suspect ownership is the problem not permission problem. Also provide a screenshot of the properties of the file showing the permissions for all Administrators would be helpful. I have a specific train of thought that can provide a detailed answer provided I understand exactly the situation with your system
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 18:32
  • Even an Administrator account will show the UAC prompts asking if you want to USE the Administrator rights. The difference is that when using a non-admin account you'll be promoted to enter the Administrator account's credentials, and when logged in to the Administrator account you'll just be prompted for yes/no whether you wish to use the rights.
    – music2myear
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 22:05
  • @Ramhound : i.imgur.com/os4qvPG.png
    – Question
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 22:28

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I've got a feeling this has NOTHING to do with being an Administrator or not.

It sounds as if the NTFS permissions on that specific drive got somehow seriously messed up.

You may be able to re-apply the permissions for all files/folders to "Administrators" "Full Control", alternating with "Take Ownership" if you can't re-apply the rights. (Will probably have to be done multiple times to get all files/folders covered.) But that is a major hassle and doesn't guarantee that it will fix the problem.

The only sure solution to this is to move all your files of that drive to another medium and then re-format it.

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What i am asking is whether i can somehow give my regular account called "Question" FULL admin rights exactly like the hidden administrator account.

Yes and no.

Yes, you can make yourself Administrator in Users and Groups or in Account Settings.

You really should NOT enable the built in Administrators Account. That is a serious security risk. Anybody who gets access can use it.

Yes, you can set UAC to the second highest level of security. Then you just need to press OK but you do not need to enter credentials.

So then No, you cannot (in any practical way) give your regular Admin Account more freedom without disabling UAC, which is also not a good idea.

Regular Admin plus second highest UAC level is a very easy way to operate.

Also make sure you have proper ownership of the files you are trying to manage

This is a freshly built PC and a fresh installation of windows

You may wish to back up this machine, and reinstall Windows. Put some files back temporarily and test file permissions before installing software.

Make sure your Windows install is a standard, complete, Windows 10 installation.

You should get the manufacturer's test for your main drive and test that for errors before re-installing Windows.

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  • The problem is that windows floods me with "you need to provide administrator permissions" when i try to do things like rename a disk volume. Clicking "yes" does not work, it just prompts me to provide permission again.
    – Question
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 14:48
  • Check if your OS is working properly. Set up as I describe, I am not flooded with permission requests
    – anon
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 15:15
  • Also you have full ownership (not to be confused with being Admin) of your files so Windows does not stop you.
    – anon
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 16:59
  • i.imgur.com/os4qvPG.png, im a member of the administrators group, which has full control over the drive, yet i keep getting asked to provide administrator permission. This makes no sense. Its not even the standard UAC screen and disabling UAC has no effect (i tried).
    – Question
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 22:31
  • You might wish to repair your OS. I do not get this kind of issue - any of my computers
    – anon
    Commented Jan 1, 2023 at 22:42

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