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Invoking the hidden Aministrator account - Dire warnings
Not a question, just an observation. It may help other frustrated Windows users out there.
I went from Windows98SE to XP-Home-32bit purely because I thought I was getting too far behind - 98SE had served me well, and I doff my cap to a superb Operating System. My move to Windows 7 64bit, though, was calculated in that I was aware that a 32-bit system could not use all of my 4 Gig memory. (I still dual boot XP/7 because 7 can't install some older progs that I still like and use.)
The changes in terms of user experience was in my eyes minimal - they aren't that different, and certainly not different enough to qualify as separate Operating Systems; they are just upgrades, but charged for as new. I was fortunate to miss Vista on my own machines, but I did encounter it on others', and my oh my.
Anyway, the biggest real difference (not just visuals) was User Access Control (UAC). In 7 I continually received messages telling me I couldn't do this or that because I didn't have the right privileges or permissions, which drove me crazy. I then learned about the hidden Administrator account. But every post relating to that warned that it was ONLY for emergencies, and warned of dire consequences should it be invoked, and best not use it at all. Just fuss, nonsense, kerfuffle, and panic-mongering.
Thing is, I had full control of everything in 95, 98, 98SE, and XP, and nothing died. So I invoked the Administrator account. After two days of nothing going wrong, and no refusals (joy), I deleted the original User Account, and now use only the Admistrator account, and without a password required at boot, either, as I'm the only person using my machine. It's been about 9 months now, and guess what, no problems at all. I have not blown up my computer nor caused it to crash regularly or even occasionally. Just back where I used to be, in control without the anger and frustration.
Ignore what anyone says to you about this control nonsense. Invoke the Administrator account, use it as your primary Logon, and get back your sanity, and your control of the thing you own - the computer, and make it do what YOU tell IT to do and not the other way around.
Even if you are a newbie it's just fascist to have UAC. I was a newbie once, and I never damaged my system, not once ever. If you do mess up, then simply reinstall, and don't do that wrong thing again. It's called learning and experience. You are never going to learn if you are not allowed to make mistakes.
I cannot without using the very foulest language I know to make you understand how deeply angry being told I was not allowed to do something (on a computer that I owned) made me. Livid, furious, spitting, vitriolic, murderous. My keyboard is a Dell, and, respect, because it has had to endure some serious finger punching that could snap steel girders.
Now, just calm as can be. I can do what I want, and can even override all the condescending warning messages - it still complains, occasionally, such as when I do stuff in the Registry, but then always does what I tell it to do. So much lighter of heart.
Take control back, ditch UAC. Invoke the hidden Adminstrator account and use it only.
If anyone answers this, they will probably issue the same dire, bleak warnings - ignore them, they just want to control you, and make you believe they know freedom better.