Can’t Open Elevated Command Prompt

no, for instance the side screen is unmanageable right now, I guess it needs the LENOVO driver
not that I need the extra screen...

I'm reading this : To fix it, I had to disable secure boot in the bios and wipe all the keys from the bios. leave secure boot off and begin the install process again, choose custom and delete ALL partitions from your intended drive (sorry your going to need a fresh install) after you have got the drive completely wiped DO NOT continue the install. Restart and insure secure boot is still off and all keys are erased again if needed. Now you can reinstall windows, again using the custom option and select the version of windows you need. Once its up and running you can load powershell to quickly insure the error is gone (the error will come up immediately when its working incorrectly) if it loads you should be good. You can now restart and return to the bios to enable secure boot and save the current keys. restarting again should have you up and running properly.

well, secure boot I do not have, and I have no clue what "all the keys from the bios" might be... BUT there are several partitions on my drive.... could that be it ?



let's see what else I can try....

Ooops, was answering dalchina
just see your post AndreTen - I have seen this tuto but I cannot open a command prompt, that's THE PROBLEM !

side screen : this thinkpad comes with double screen

partitions : I don't remember creating any partitions, I always used this thinkpad with win7 but it originally came with vista - a couple of years ago I needed the win7 key for an other machine so I ran the vista cd on this one, I meant to sell it but never came around to it
so the partitions have been created by the original package delivered with the machine, it might have been a good idea to formate the hd before installing win 10....

5 drivers are missing according to the device manager, all in "other devices"
2 base system device
figerprint sensor
PCI Simple Communication controller
unknow device

dalchina said:

I'm now wondering- did you actually clean install at all? (Boot from an external Win 10 USB disk, then install)
- or did you boot from win 7, log in, then upgrade?

clean install, booted from the usb drive on which I had downloaded win 10

I know it's an old machine, but it has all what is needed for win 10 - and the OP is... operating right now, just blocking any software I try to install, I tested with key text which I downloaded directly on the thinkpad, I could not run it...

Processor: 2.27 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q9100
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
12288 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded




RAM: 8124 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 4096 MB (serial number
80295465)
Slot 'DIMM 2' has 4096 MB (serial number
7725A1FC)
Local Drive Volumes


Free hard disk space: 399.99 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
303.60 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space (this was with win 7 and some softwares installed)




Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M [Display adapter]

hello again dalchina,
the blocked files in window, I already met in win 7 - it was not the case here
as to changing WDC folder access settings, it did not solve the problem

so I am gonna try a new install
as you previously said, 4 partitions have been created, that is C + SW-preload, lenovo and SERVICEV003
for 2 of them I can delete volume, but not for the service one
and I hope deleting them won't wreck win10 before I can formate C...

I'm very much out of my depth here...
I go and see if I find "how to" on the site