Lame QotM: Easy way to see if user has admin rights?

In XP I used to be able to right click the Start button as a way to check if the logged on user had admin rights. If I saw "Explore All Users" I knew the user had admin rights.

i'm using the Domain Admin account on a new machine and i'm trying to run my WSUS client fix batch file and its erroring out as if i didn't have admin rights

mind you, this is the first time i'm using W7 in a domain environment (finally was able to upgrade some boxes) so i feel back in n00b status as i never really had to worry about it at home (not knowing admin rights that is).

sorry if this has been explained elsewhere, but i suck at searching and didn't find anything.

i just want the cheap and cheesy way of checking for admin rights ala XP please!

thx
lv

with the new windows 7 machines come new group policy settings to manage "domain admin" rights on local machines... You'll need to either install server 2008 and DCpromo it OR... You can add the patch to a 2003 DC in order to complete the NEW GPO for the windows 7 machines.

or just manaully add "Domain Admins" through: (control userpasswords2)

logicearth said:

Have you tried running the batch file using "Run as Admin..." from the account that doesn't seem to work?

not as of yet...i'm trying to figure out why i would need to "run as admin" when i am logged in under an account that has Domain Admin rights, not to mention nearly all other Admin rights assigned to it...is this part of the issues i'm going to have with 7 boxes and GPO since we are still using Server 2003?

just tried it with "run as admin" and it doesn't work...doesn't even do anything actually...i see the DOS window pop up and then disappear just as fast even tho i have "pause" at the end of the batch...

anyone have any ideas?

Thorsen...thanks for the reply

well, here's what i'm still scratching my head on...when i run the batch file under the domain admin profile, the batch works great no probs...i don't have to run it with "run as admin" i just double click the file and it performs the net stop command/etc...but when i log in with my domain account (which has every single priv that the domain admin account has) it won't run period...

i just put a pause instruction in the fist line of the batch file and ran it...i'm getting the "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied"
so then i right click and select Run as Admin, click yes to the security popup, and the DOS window opens and closes just as fast...and this is still with "pause" as the very first command line.
then i copy the batch file to the local drive (its always been out on a network drive that contains all my batch files) and right click and select Run as Admin...click yes to security, and it runs fine...
yet i want to reiterate that the Domain Admin account doesn't need the batch file to be local in order to run it successfully.

thoughts?