SP2010: Some Ribbon links are disabled in Central Admin

Problem:
When using Central Administration site with Internet Explorer that is running locally on the same server on which the Central Admin is located on, some buttons on the ribbon are disabled. This happens even when you are logged into the server as local admin, and logged into the Central Admin site using Farm Admin credentials. With Firefox or remote IE buttons are enabled

Solution:
Start IE instance as Administrator (right click IE icon and “Run as Administrator”).