How can I have full 'Administrator rights' for my user account?

Hi.

I am the only user on my system and there is only a single account. Control panel shows my account as having full administrator rights.

However, whenever I try to do literally anything, even the simplest operations like moving, deleting, or renaming a file, a prompt appears every time asking 'You will need to provide Administrator permission to do this' and I have to click a YES to go ahead.

The more annoying thing is that when I am using some software involving the above functions (renaming or over writing files) the operation completely aborts with an 'access denied' message.

Nobody uses this computer except me and I want to have full rights to do anything.

Thanks for help.

Thank you for the reply.

This tutorial seems to be directed towards Windows Vista and lists various options for the intended purpose. Can you briefly guide me which option and how to use it for Windows 7?

I fully understand your security advice and the dangers of malware in my case. I don't want to tamper with the default security features. Is it not possible that I 'authorize' my specific programs that I frequently use while keeping in place the security settings for everything else? For example, I want to use a batch renaming utility for files and an image format conversion software to work with image files. The default security simply doesn't let me use these apps!

Regards.

Thanks.