How to fix Yes button grayed out in User Account Control (UAC): User Account Control box pops up and ask users permission i.e you have to click ‘yes‘ to make changes to your computer before giving administrative permissions. But sometimes there isn’t a prompt or ‘Yes button is grayed out‘ when user account control box pops up then there is an issue with your account that you are currently logged into.
Unable to click ‘yes’ button or the ‘Yes button is grayed out’ in User Account Control (UAC) the reason that you are Standard User and you don’t have the admin rights to make changes. You need Administrator rights to make changes but again administrator account is disabled. When i try to enable the administrator account i am getting the error message ‘The following error occurred while attempting to save properties for user Administrator: Access is denied.’
Fix for Yes button grayed out in User Account Control (UAC):
1.Press Windows key + Q button to open Windows charms bar.
2.Type ‘cmd’ in the search and open it.
3.In Command Prompt type: SHUTDOWN /R /O -T 00 and press Enter.
4.Wait till the computer restarts and the advanced boot options are displayed.
5.Click on Troubleshoot from ‘Choose an option‘ screen.
6.Next select ‘Advanced options.’
7.Now in the advanced option menu, click on ‘Command Prompt.’
8.Command Prompt will open after the restart.
NOTE: You may need to enter administrator password or current user account password.
9.In cmd type NET USER ADMINISTRATOR /ACTIVE:YES and press Enter to enable the Administrator account.
10.Now exit the command prompt by typing exit and press enter.
11.From Choose an option window, click Troubleshoot then Advanced options and click Startup settings.
12.From the Startup Settings window, click Restart.
13.Startup Settings window comes up again after the Windows restart, press 4 on the keyboard to start in the Safe Mode.
14.In Safe Mode click on the Administrator account to log in.
15.Once you are logged in Administrator account, you can remove the old account and create a new one without errors.
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That’s it you have successfully fixed the problem of ‘Yes button grayed out in User Account Control (UAC).’ If you still have any question please feel free to ask them in comments.
Thanks sir information
cmd not working another way to fix it?
it works for me, without a passoword. because i creeate the account, withour microsoft account, type no password and press “Next”.
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Great my (Yes button was grade out. After troubleshooting in advance option, before I came across your post. Well perfect mehn. Let educate the IT world bro….
Uac yes option is greyd.evrybdy said go on the administrator by cmd or run as admnstrtr and many other way they told me for rech a administrator but sir i tryed evry option but there is not found administrator option and i tryed reinstalation there also got a error now tel me what to do…
I need help, I have a similar issue with windows 7 on my PC. I can’t make the modifications on the computer management system, Its giving me Access denied message. I tried system restore and changing account type but I still have the message saying “do you want to allow the following….” with the grey yes button. I read other forum that suggested this line on CMD net user administrator/ active:yes but it doesn’t work. Could really use a help 🙁
Have you tried Repair Install in Windows 10: https://techcult.com/wiki/how-to-repair-install-windows-10-easily/
Sir, I am gettimg message that “The password does not meet the policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements.
More help available by typing NET HELPMSG 2245.”
Please help 😓
Terima kasih 🙂
Thank you so much for this thread! I have been trying to fix this problem on my computer for days. Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Thanks..
After a entered the shutdown /r in command prompt and hit enter it gave me a long list of things I don’t understand. What does this mean?
I don’t know the administrator pasword, I never set one. What do I do?
Everything went fine but when I came to the part of deleting the old account (wonder which account it was) ….it threw up the old message that inbuilt account cannot be deleted. It’s a wacky loop. Now I am back to where it all started. 🙁
Thank you. My issue was that I stupidly got rid of my admin rights to my only account. Other sites would only give partial information or incorrect. Your information was thorough and I was finally able to give myself back administrator access.
Please How fixed it in windows 7?
Hello, I have problem. I change the name of the admin into RNC, but after logging, I’ve been login as temporary profile, whenever I run cmd as admin, UAC will pop out and I have to enter username and password but my problem is that I have one account. Please help
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How to fix the same issue in window 7.
Does the same Win 10 trick will follow to win7 to fix the issue
If i do this, will it delete or alter my personal files?
mine appear in Russian when i click the command prompt on the blue screen. how do i fix it?
After logging in as administrator.
It shows that I need a app for this ms-to-get-started
It works for me. I enabled my admin account which displayed standard user in safe mode . To fix i used in built Administrator and that really solved the issue. Thanks for the post
It worked perfectly!! The images made following the steps easier. Thanks a million times.
If i do this is it going to reset all my files or i m still going to have them
i dont have windows 11 pro so i dont have the yes button on windows 11