Becomming full admin from user account

From our excellent tutorials information on the Adm Account

Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

The hidden Adm account is not meant for everyday use. If you wish to use it as your regular account, I think that the easiest way would be follow the above tutorial and then to use Windows Easy Transfer, for settings etc.

You can change the settings of the UAC, I will post the tutorial on this

In addition take ownership and permissiions

Take Ownership of file - Vista Forums

I believe this is the best course of action.

Here is our excellent tutorial on the UAC

User Account Control - UAC - Change Notification Settings

To the best of my knowledge this is the best method to acheive your goal.

Stevy22 said:

Create a new Built in admin account
Use this command
CMD-> net user administrator \active:yes
and then restart your computer with the other administrator account that gets created automaticaly
You should be GTG

This enables the "hidden" admin account, and as richie said, is not for everyday use. You should use this account to make a new one, with the name you prefer, then copy all files from the old account, then delete it. After that, disable the "hidden" acc by typing net user administrator \active:no

Stevy22 said:

Create a new Built in admin account
Use this command
CMD-> net user administrator \active:yes
and then restart your computer with the other administrator account that gets created automaticaly
You should be GTG

There was a mistake:

net users Administrator /active:yes

This should be allright now.

To undo: net users Administrator /active:no

DarkPhoenix said:

Coolness said:

Stevy22 said:

Create a new Built in admin account
Use this command
CMD-> net user administrator \active:yes
and then restart your computer with the other administrator account that gets created automaticaly
You should be GTG

This enables the "hidden" admin account, and as richie said, is not for everyday use. You should use this account to make a new one, with the name you prefer, then copy all files from the old account, then delete it. After that, disable the "hidden" acc by typing net user administrator \active:no

Why can't I use the hidden Admin account for everyday use?

I only want ONE account on my computer, Period... hidden or otherwise; The account with the most power.

I can see this is a good idea for newbies, but for a guy like me who has used Windows since Windows 3.1, I feel I should have the one only account that is the Administrator account with the most power. Just like it used to be until Microsoft decided to change things and make life difficult for us power users.

This Hidden account thing is a new feature that is not necessary and a headache for an old Windows user. I believe every user should have the right to choose this as an option when he first installs Windows.

I agree, you own the computer and you should make the final decision. The benefit of this forum is that you can avail yourself to various opinions. With that information, you can choose the best course of action for yourself. Coolness was giving his opinion, which you are free to use or to disregard. I think that this sharing of opinions is a benefit of this Forum. I, do, however, hope that you were not offended in any way.