What causes this error for asking User to be an Administrator?
This error indicates that you are trying to access the system files through command prompt, and for that you need permission or you have to be the administrator. If you open a command prompt by just double clicking or right-click then clicking open, it will start in normal mode. But, if you right-click it and Run it as administrator then the CMD will open as an Elevated Command Prompt. Whenever you need to do changes or run system files you have to open CMD in elevated mode. Below we have a solution about how to do that.
Running Command Prompt as Administrator
To run the SFC Utility command we always need to run elevated command prompt, which is the command prompt running with the permission of the administrator. When you run it as an administrator you let the CMD access and use your system files, and SFC Utility is one of the system commands. To do that, follow the steps below
Bonus: Setting Elevated CMD as Default
You can make the CMD run as administrator always whenever you open it, by doing the following steps below:
The issue when running Command Prompt as admin
If you are running the command prompt as an administrator and still getting this error. You can try to use a third-party program named NSudo. It will basically give you permissions of TrustedInstaller. If that doesn’t work for you as well, you can try to boot your Windows into safe mode then try to run SFC Command.
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