A want to be real administrator

I do not want to be a fake administrator.
I do not want to spend my valuable time by going to properties and clicking "run this program as administartor".
I want to be real administrator like in Windows XP.
How I will do that?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Shoul I remove myself from HomeUsers? What will happen then? Is there side effects?

A real administrator would know these things.

Activate Administrator account.

darkhorn said:

I do not want to be a fake administrator.
I do not want to spend my valuable time by going to properties and clicking "run this program as administartor".
I want to be real administrator like in Windows XP.
How I will do that?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Shoul I remove myself from HomeUsers? What will happen then? Is there side effects?

dude a real administrator has real responsibilities. If you run as admin, you may very well break other things and not know how to fix them. Who is the current admin?

ken

I'm not entirely sure why you find it necessary to be the "admin" within Windows Vista or Windows 7. I am a systems engineer for a living and hold the root password to multi-dozens of Linux boxes and so forth. I have the SA accounts for SQL. I have the admin accounts for Windows. So, I understand the concept of having full control

But I don't have any need whatsoever to run my Windows desktop computers at anything other than a standard user with UAC turned on.

The problem with being a "real administrator" like in XP was the fact that this insecure method of accessing the computer left a ton of computers infected with spyware, malware, rootkits, trojans, bots and every other bad thing in the world. There is a reason that Microsoft made some significant changes to that OS and there are reasons why Windows Vista and Windows 7 are improvements upon old operating systems.

Being a real admin also involves adapting to change and learning the reasons why the change was necessary....rather than just blindly deciding that the "old way" is still the best way.

pparks1 said:

I'm not entirely sure why you find it necessary to be the "admin" within Windows Vista or Windows 7. I am a systems engineer for a living and hold the root password to multi-dozens of Linux boxes and so forth. I have the SA accounts for SQL. I have the admin accounts for Windows. So, I understand the concept of having full control

But I don't have any need whatsoever to run my Windows desktop computers at anything other than a standard user with UAC turned on.

The problem with being a "real administrator" like in XP was the fact that this insecure method of accessing the computer left a ton of computers infected with spyware, malware, rootkits, trojans, bots and every other bad thing in the world. There is a reason that Microsoft made some significant changes to that OS and there are reasons why Windows Vista and Windows 7 are improvements upon old operating systems.

Being a real admin also involves adapting to change and learning the reasons why the change was necessary....rather than just blindly deciding that the "old way" is still the best way.

Yes, I know. This new "fake admin" feature is because of those stupid noob morons. I never had an infected XP.

I agree. Stupid noob morons do not know that to avoid wasting valuable time by going to properties and clicking "run this program as administartor" - just disable UAC.

Probably because I was used to the structure of the unix core on Mac OS X, I just got used to having 'root' underlying everything.

When I moved to XP, I kept in the habit of running an admin account ; only doing system specifics like backup / virus scans / program installation etc.

For me and my partner I always made standard accounts for everyday use.
On XP I never had problems with a virus or trojan - honest.

With 7, I have done the same. But as there is now an administrator embeded into the system I will enable that, and delete my original 'admin' account.

I can't actually understand why people are so fearfull of running in standard user mode, surely it's safer, especially if you're a download or web monster