Windows 10 Pro - Your Info shows Administrator - but permissions are limited
Regardless of login via a local or Microsoft account, my permissions are limited, such as being unable to change the time zone via Date & Time Settings:
You do not have permission to perform this task. Please contact your computer administrator for help.
- Without any problem, I changed it within the Registry, but the annoying issue persists within Date & Time Settings:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
What options do I have to get full permissions?
You need to make sure that your account is in the Administrators group. This can be done by checking the following:
- Right-click the Start button and click Computer Management.
- Navigate to System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Groups.
- Double-click Administrators and confirm that your account is in that group.
If your account is in the Administrators group, you should be able to do the following:
- Right-click the Start button and click Command Prompt (Admin).
- If prompted with a UAC dialog saying "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your PC?", click Yes.
- Type
net session
. - If you are an Administrator, you will get a result. If not, you will get 'Access Denied'.