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George:
Hello,

I can't run any program as administrator on Windows 8, 64 bit via any shortcut. I am the only user and administrator.

The problem is with the shortcuts only but all of them, e.g. cmd wouldn't start as admin from the start panel, nor from Win+X. Also, when I searched C: for 'command prompt', 15 (!) shortcuts turned out, none started elevated cmd (right click and pick 'run as administrator'). When, however I searched for 'cmd.exe' two direct hits (among several other, irrelevant) did. Then I tried notepad and a few other programs, and found the same, none starts as admin from the main panel (no error message either), but they do from the original location of their respective .exe files.

Both sfc/scannow and Automatic Repair said they had detected some issue but could not fix it. Alas, Tweaking’s Windows Repair did not help either.

I found a suggestion for Xindows 2000 and XP at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294676/en-us. The XP version seemed to apply, I found Secondary Logon among the services in my system, and set its start Automatic and started it as instructed, but this did not help either. On the same page a version of MS Fixit is also offered, but this is incompatible with my OS; another version that I downloaded earlier said that my system is fine, nothing to repair. I also turned to MS forum but have not received any solution.

How to enable these shortcuts please?
Thank you very much.
George

Shane:
It is just a registry setting that needs to be put back.

Are you able to right click on an exe file and you have the run as administrator option?

These might help, should work for 8.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/200558-run-administrator-add-remove-context-menu-windows-7-a.html

And

http://bcrawfordjr.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/adding-run-as-administrator-to-a-registration-file-context-menu/

The 2nd one is more for showing how you can add the ren as administrator to non default things :-)

Shane

George:
Thank you Shane, but it didn't work for me.
I followed the first tutorial and got '....successfully added to the registry.' Yet, nothing's changed.

Yes, as I mentioned, I can run the programs as admin directly from their .exe files (after right click I see and can use the 'Run as administrator' option). So, to my layman's mind, the problem is not with the function but with the shortcuts.

What should I do?
Thanks.

Shane:
I know on my system shortcuts that are pointing to an exe give me that option but shortcuts pointing to something else doesnt.

The first thing to do is to find out if the problem is system wide or only to the current profile.

Make a new user account and login to that account, does it have the same problem?

Shane

George:
I created a new account, first just user then I made it administrator, the shortcuts to 'Run as Administrator' didn't work in either case.

I haven't mentioned that I run the Enterprise edition, could it make any difference?
George

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