June 10, 2016

How to fix Yes button grayed out in User Account Control

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.

Yes button grayed out in User Account Control (UAC)

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.’

Admin account diabled

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.

command prompt

3.In Command Prompt type: SHUTDOWN /R /O -T 00 and press Enter.

shutdown recovery option command

4.Wait till the computer restarts and the advanced boot options are displayed.

5.Click on Troubleshoot from ‘Choose an option‘ screen.

advanced boot options

6.Next select ‘Advanced options.’

troubleshoot from choose an option

7.Now in the advanced option menu, click on ‘Command Prompt.’

Command prompt from advanced options

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.

active administrator account by recovery

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.

Startup setting in advanced options

12.From the Startup Settings window, click Restart.

Restart from startup setting window

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.

administrator account login

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.