Permissions/Admin problems after changing Windows Key

I don't recall ever being prompted for this before, but I recently installed a new motherboard and cpu and had to get a new Windows key as a result (the old one was generated from a Windows 7 upgrade on the other mobo/cpu).

Now, when I try to rename any of my internal drives, I'm prompted for administrator privileges. My account is still an admin account, and I have UAC turned off, just as before.

I just tried, and so did I (admin, but with UAC on, bld 18365.535). Don't recall it happening before, but c'est la vie.

I recently upgraded my motherboard/cpu/and ram. Originally, my Windows 10 installation was a free upgrade from a Windows 7 installation that I'd had. Swapping to new parts invalidated my activation, and I was forced to purchase a new key.

After re-activating Windows, I've started to notice that I have permissions problems across the board, and constantly have to provide myself with authority to do simple things, like renaming internal hard drives.

I do a lot of coding in AutoHotKey, and as part of automation, I have scrips that startup/shutdown various programs. I've noticed that I now have to run those scrips in Administrator Mode for them to work; otherwise, when attempting to shut a program down, they'll fail and the program will just keep running. This is how I know for certain that something in my system or profile has changed.

I tried creating a new admin profile on the system only to be faced with the same problem.

Any thoughts on how I can correct this and return to having a normal level of administrative access to my machine would be greatly appreciated. I really do not want to reinstall the OS.

It's the same Windows installation. I can't remember what type of key I had for Windows 7 originally.

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Derp. Somehow, the registry setting got reset:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

EnableLUA = 0

Now I can do whatever I like again.