If your Administrative Tools folder is empty, use one of these ways to restore the default shortcuts.
The default Administrative Tools shortcuts can be restored by running the System File Checker.
Open an admin Command Prompt window, and then type:
sfc /scannow
After the System File Checker completes, you’ll notice the missing Administrative Tools shortcuts restored.
(Thanks to the commenter Ben Page for the tip.)
If you want to restore a specific shortcut, you can use the following command-line instead.
For example:
sfc /scanfile="C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Active Directory Administrative Center.lnk"
Alternately, you can download windows-10-admintools.zip (from Windows 10 Pro x64 v2004 computer.)
Note that this list is from a Windows 10 Professional x64 computer. Higher editions like Windows 10 Enterprise may contain additional shortcuts.
You can either download the above zip file and place the shortcuts in the Admin Tools folder or create shortcuts manually in the following folder:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
Name | Target |
Component Services | %windir%\system32\comexp.msc |
Computer Management | %windir%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s |
Defragment and Optimize Drives | %windir%\system32\dfrgui.exe |
Disk Cleanup | %windir%\system32\cleanmgr.exe |
Event Viewer | %windir%\system32\eventvwr.msc /s |
iSCSI Initiator | %windir%\system32\iscsicpl.exe |
Local Security Policy | %windir%\system32\secpol.msc /s |
ODBC Data Sources (32-bit) | %windir%\syswow64\odbcad32.exe |
ODBC Data Sources (64-bit) | %windir%\system32\odbcad32.exe |
Performance Monitor | %windir%\system32\perfmon.msc /s |
Print Management | %systemroot%\system32\printmanagement.msc |
Resource Monitor | %windir%\system32\perfmon.exe /res |
services | %windir%\system32\services.msc |
System Configuration | %windir%\system32\msconfig.exe |
System Information | %windir%\system32\msinfo32.exe |
Task Scheduler | %windir%\system32\taskschd.msc /s |
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security | %windir%\system32\WF.msc |
Windows Memory Diagnostic | %windir%\system32\MdSched.exe |
In addition to the above (commonly used) shortcuts, there may be many more, depending upon the version and edition of Windows 10 you’re using.
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Local Security Policy
%windir%\system32\secpol.msc /s
this is missing in my sys admin tools how to retrive
The problem for me was not that the folder was missing, per se, but that some Windows update renamed it. It is now found at the following path:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Administrative Tools
Note that there is a space between each word in the folder name “Windows Administrative Tools”.
Oddly, when I click in the File Explorer address bar and the path is changed to a link, it reads this way:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
Another annoying Windows 10 SNAFU.
Believe it or not sfc checks for the existence of the Administrative Tools shortcuts. Rather than doing this, just run `sfc /scannow`
Cmd says I don’t have Admin status (yet my User profile says I’m Admin) How to fix please?!
@JLAY69: What’s the exact error message as seen on the screen? are you able to run other admin tasks on the computer?