To continue, type an administrator password UAC error on Windows 10

In today's release, we will attempt to resolve the User Access Control (UAC) error message prompt – Do you want the following program to make changes to this computer? To continue, enter an administrator password, then click Yes – some Windows 10 Users can meet when they try to open a program or perform any other action on their PC.

To continue, enter an administrator password – UAC

As you can see from the image above, there is no field for typing a password and Yes is grayed out.

Disabling UAC can solve this problem, but it is strongly recommended NOT to disable UAC. It is a very good protection if malicious programs wish to make modifications that could damage your computer.

Therefore, if you have encountered this error after upgrading to a new version of Windows, issues preventing you from accessing files and folders may occur for one or more of the following reasons:

• The ownership of the folder has changed.
• The files are stored in a windows.old folder of your previous installation.

Some of your account information may have changed if you recently upgraded your computer to Windows 10 from an earlier version of Windows. As a result, you may no longer own certain files and folders. You may be able to fix this by restoring ownership of the files and folders, but first run the SFC scan and if that doesn't resolve the issue, you can continue with the instructions below.

1. Open File Explorer.

2. Go to This PC > Local disk (C 🙂 > Users.

3. Right click on your User profile folder and select properties.

4. Click on the Security tab, under Group or user names section, select your Username and click Edit.

5. Click on Total control checkbox under Permissions for authenticated users and click Apply and D & #39; agreement.

6. Now select Advanced under Security tab.

7. Select your User profile under Authorization inputs and click Edit, customize the permission level and click D & #39; agreement.

8. Check the option Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object.

9. Click on Apply > D & #39; agreement to save the changes.

10. Restart your PC and check if the problem is resolved.

However, if you haven't upgraded to Windows but run into this problem, you can try System Restore. If the error is triggered when you try to perform a system restore, because itself is a program – follow the instructions below, then try the system restore operation again.

1. Boot into safe mode with command prompt.

2. In the command prompt, type the command below and press Enter.

net user Administrator /active:yes

Once executed, the above command will activate Windows 10 built-in administrator account – it will now show up outside of Safe Mode.

3. Restart your PC and log back in as administrator. And try the system restore again.

If there are no restore points for one reason or another, you can do an in-place upgrade repair of Windows 10. The procedure will keep your custom settings, installed apps and personal files, but will replace any corrupt or damaged system files with new copies.

That's it!