On windows 7, I have a user account of the 'administrator' type. However, whenever I try to do anything that only admins can do (ie: run a few cmd commands), I receive a message that I don't have the privileges. This happens on the same computer with a different admin account as well.
I have turned the UAC all the way down to the lowest. On all the other win 7 computer I have, they have no problem whatsoever when running the same commands.
How can I get the correct privileges back for this admin account?
Best Answer
Even though you are as an administrator, on Windows 7, you are actually not a full administrator in normal context.
From Technet:
I highly recommend against it, but you can try to disable the "User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode". You can change that behavior by modifying the
EnableLUA
value in the following key to0
in the registry, and restarting the computer:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
The alternative is to right click the Command Prompt icon and click Run As Administrator; otherwise you're running in a user context.