This App Can’t Be Activated By The Built-in Administrator FIX [Tutorial]
14This App Can’t Be Activated By The Built-in Administrator FIX [Tutorial]
You may receive the error message This app can’t be activated by the Built-in Administrator when you try to open certain apps on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer. This post provides the most adequate solutions affected PC users can apply to resolve the issue on their device. In some cases, the error occurs when you try to open PNG, GIF, JPEG, and PDF files.
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Unable to activate Windows Store app. The activation request failed with error ‘This app can’t be activated by the Built-in Administrator’.
See help for advice on troubleshooting the issue.
Some users are getting the “This app can’t be activated by the built-in administrator” error when double-clicking certain file types. Most of the time, users report that this issue is encountered with PNG, GIF, JPEG, and PDF files. The issue is mostly reported to occur on Windows 11 – most affected users report that the issue started to occur after a certain Windows update.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
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Windows don’t allow all levels of users to operate on the same level of security. While the administrators enjoy all the accessibility permission with a just click, it doesn’t hold true in the case of a standard/guest account on the system. But, sometimes even while using an administrative account, a user may see this “This app can’t be activated by the built-in Administrator” error message. Don’t worry. This is nothing but a simple misconfigured policy issue.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.