Hi. @Flood and Flood's wife It’s KIS MR5. The issue isn’t the Scan for weak OS settings or any other KIS settings.. After I did a scan through Scan for weak OS settings, it listed a weak setting. I don’t recall what it was. I proceeded with clicking the FIX button. Then after a restart, I started getting that issue I mentioned in the original post. The fix removed FULL admin rights and now Windows asks me (see the attached image in my original post) permission whenever I need to handle sensitive files and folders (program files and some exe. Maybe a Kaspersky dev may help. They may know what weak OS setting it might have been. Knowing this, I can perhaps reverse it. Otherwise, none of the things worked.