Desktop "You need Permission to perform this action" When I am admin!

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

Hi guys I have a problem and would gladly appreicate any help you may have. Thanks in advance.

So I want to create a text document, and I get this error. http://gyazo.com/4b69314e36a61cb5a4bc5caa514925a4

On this site, you're told that you fix this by changing the User Account Control Settings to "Never" and you have to be administrator. But I have both of these. http://gyazo.com/28934f79c1aa6803b8f6627dac505a01
http://gyazo.com/f259266dfb28b6c6c2e35ff6d225eea0

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Thank you if you can help.

-Conor

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

right click the program and "run as administrator" also click box "always run as administrator"

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

But I am trying to create a text document, I cant right click it and run as administrator when i cant create the document.

pierrerock · Aug 13, 2014

It did this to me on my win 8 laptop after I pulled out my HDD and put it in my desktop WIN 7 for backing up (had 100 GB to transfer, so it was faster)

Result : my WIN 8 got somehow corrupted and I had the same problem as yours. I had to reinstall since nothing worked for me as well.

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

So I'll need to re install windows 7? :O

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

before entering the program i mean. not while it is running. instead of double clicking to enter program, right click the icon

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

Im sorry im confused, im trying to create a desktop text document by right clicking then going to create text document, how do i do what you're saying as it is not working for me

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

you can also attempt to reset windows permissions,

Right click CMD PROMPT (msdos emulator) under start, programs, accessories, run as administrator. Enter text exactly as follows (you can probably copy and CTRL V to paste in command prompt:

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

That didnt work

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

I see, desktop text document uses the program "wordpad". the EXE file can be found by hitting the start button, then searching for "wordpad.exe" Right click the WORDPAD.EXE icon that should be found. Right click that icon. Click always run as administrator.

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

what happened when you ran the DOS command?

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

There is no where that says "always runs as administrator" and when i ran the command nothing changed

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

http://gyazo.com/ebf56eb4d0347478e247417552776a6f As you can see i cannot click always run as administrator

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

try resetting after the dos command.

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

That didnt work either

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

hmm, guess your admin account has been corrupted. Try this

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7

conorkvngh · Aug 13, 2014

Okay thanks for all your help

delellod123 · Aug 13, 2014

no prob, sorry for the issues you are experiencing

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