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When is an Administrator not an Administrator account .....
My log-in screen used to be bypassed. I would switch the computer on and, after they system sorted itself out, I would be taken to my desktop. There was only one user account in User Accounts, It had my name with Administrator underneath my name.
Now, after updates and one or two new applications have been installed, that doesn't happen.
I am presented with a log-in screen showing two log-ins, Administrator and My Name.
In User Accounts there is still only one account listed, it's got May Name with Administrator written beneath it.
However, of the two radio buttons lower down, the upper one, Standard user is enabled, the lower one, Administrator, is not.
Further down is a button marked Change Account Type.
If I click the Administrator radio button the dot appears in it, and the dot disappears from the Standard button. but the Change Account Type button is now greyed out.
I have, on the desktop, a few shortcuts. One of them is to Malwarebytes, which was recently uninstalled and replaced by an older version. I move such shortcuts to a desktop folder named "Cleaner's Cupboard" where shortcuts to other housekeeping software live.
I can't move this latest shortcut there. When I try to do so I am told that I need permisssion from administrators etc.
Trying to cut and paste it coughs up the same message.
How can I return the system, Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, so that, ideally, there's only one account with full admin permissions, and I can again avoid the log-in palaver?