How to be administrator if I had standard user

I'm at a loss as to becoming the Administrator of my own machine. I guess I'm now a "a standard user" even though I built the machine and am the only user of it. I guess I never realized or knew how to make myself the admin for the machine. Now I cannot "own" files to make changes because I'm not...

There has long been, and I guess still is, advice to use a standard user rather than administrator account to limit the things that can be done by malware. Until recently I've always used an administrator account despite this advice. After recently seeing a report stating that an extremely...

While moving my programs and records from an old XP-PRO system to a new Windows 7 system, everything went into my administrator account. How do I share things like internet explorer and the address book with all (or a specific) user account? :( Joe Christensen

I have Windows 7 Professional x64. There are three user accounts: Daddy - Administrator...this is my account; Child - Standard User; and Visitor - Standard User. (These are not the accounts' real names.) I really should be a Standard User for day-to-day computing. There are two ways I...

So we are a company stuck a few years in the past. We give all of our approximate 1,200 users (currently on XP Pro SP 2) admin rights because we have about 5 different computer models at any given time and have 5 images to maintain. With all of the software we have on our network and our limited...