Solved UAC Trouble

[Justin213141]

Hello Windows Seven Forum Members,
My computer (Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit) has been experiencing difficulties with UAC, where I had temporarily turned it off, and forgot to turn it back on. However, now, everything that has to do with UAC is now not working: I can't change UAC settings, I tried in every way possible, and the result is the same, after clicking the link which would usually take you to a new window, nothing happens.
Because of this, any application which would require me to run as administrator (regedit and cmd (with privileges) included) does not work, instead, showing up the following message: "Windows cannot find '.......exe'. Make sure you type the name correctly and try again. Whenever I try to install anything, a different error occurs: "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified". And whenever I would normally be asked to give permission to a program as an administrator of my system, now absolutely nothing happens, and I am unable to proceed further.
Any help with this would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

 

[Heyyou]

Please excuse me for interrupting your post, but can you tell me what UAC stands for? I just got a new computer with WIN7, and while setting up I saw what it was and forgot. It's driving me crazy. LOL Thanks in advance.

 

[richc46]

User Account Control. Its a security feature. To HeyYou. The correct procdedure is to start a new thread. Having two sets of questions in one thread tends to cause confusion.
In answer to the original poster, see if it works better in Safe Mode.
If that does not work see if this administrator can get you up and running again
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html?filter[2]=User Accounts

 

[Gornot]

Hello Windows Seven Forum Members,
My computer (Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit) has been experiencing difficulties with UAC, where I had temporarily turned it off, and forgot to turn it back on. However, now, everything that has to do with UAC is now not working: I can't change UAC settings, I tried in every way possible, and the result is the same, after clicking the link which would usually take you to a new window, nothing happens.
Because of this, any application which would require me to run as administrator (regedit and cmd (with privileges) included) does not work, instead, showing up the following message: "Windows cannot find '.......exe'. Make sure you type the name correctly and try again. Whenever I try to install anything, a different error occurs: "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified". And whenever I would normally be asked to give permission to a program as an administrator of my system, now absolutely nothing happens, and I am unable to proceed further.
Any help with this would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

Did you try using System Restore to restore your system to a time prior to this error?

You could also try running sfc /scannow in cmd.

 

[Heyyou]

User Account Control. Its a security feature. To HeyYou. The correct procdedure is to start a new thread. Having two sets of questions in one thread tends to cause confusion.
In answer to the original poster, see if it works better in Safe Mode.
If that does not work see if this administrator can get you up and running again
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html?filter[2]=User Accounts

Richc46, Thanks for the info and the heads up. I will correct my mistake.

 

[Justin213141]

However, the problem is that I am the administrator (and only user) of my machine, and without admin privileges, which I should have, I can't run cmd with privileges, nor create new accounts =.=

 

[richc46]

Did you see my first post and the built in adminstrator?

 

[Justin213141]

Without any admin privileges, I can't even enter Local Users and Groups, to complete step one of built in Admin account
Thanks though

 

[zigzag3143]

Hello Windows Seven Forum Members,
My computer (Windows 7 Ultimate x64bit) has been experiencing difficulties with UAC, where I had temporarily turned it off, and forgot to turn it back on. However, now, everything that has to do with UAC is now not working: I can't change UAC settings, I tried in every way possible, and the result is the same, after clicking the link which would usually take you to a new window, nothing happens.
Because of this, any application which would require me to run as administrator (regedit and cmd (with privileges) included) does not work, instead, showing up the following message: "Windows cannot find '.......exe'. Make sure you type the name correctly and try again. Whenever I try to install anything, a different error occurs: "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified". And whenever I would normally be asked to give permission to a program as an administrator of my system, now absolutely nothing happens, and I am unable to proceed further.
Any help with this would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

how did you turn Uac off? By chance a registry change?

 

[richc46]

Try in safe mode.

 

[severedsolo]

Give this a whirl: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/102552-built-administrator-enable-winre.html

All you need is your Windows disk, or to spam f8 on boot to enter WinRE.

 

[Justin213141]

In safe mode now
Enabled Administrator Account
However, I've noticed that I suddenly have admin privileges again, however I can't change UAC settings still
Thanks, and sorry for me not realising to use safemode earlier
Some help with UAC will still be appreciated

 

[severedsolo]

What happens if you create a new Administrator account from the Built-In Admin account you just activated? Is that new account able to edit UAC? Is the built in administrator account able to edit UAC?

 

[richc46]

The built in Adminstrator can do anything, you should not need permissions. If you now have permissions, try again in regular mode.

 

[Justin213141]

As the built in administrator, I still can't modify my UAC settings
However, as my usual account, I have regained most admin privileges (installing stuff, running exes as admin)

 

[richc46]

For a test, try in another adminsitrative user account.

 

[Justin213141]

On my computer now, there are only 2 accounts: my normal one (with administrator privileges) and the inbuilt administrator, and I've tried with both
On both accounts, I have been unable to access UAC, nor manage other accounts, but can use admin privileges

 

[richc46]

I know, create an adminstrative one, at least for a test.

 

[Justin213141]

I cannot in both accounts

 

[richc46]

See if you can disable UAC
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/299-user-account-control-uac-change-notification-settings.html