Full admin rights


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
       #1

    Full admin rights


    I'm running Win7 Pro in a domain environment. I seem to get allot of pop-ups telling me I'm need to run as administrator. I have admin rights but not full admin rights. If there is such a thing. Any ideas?

    I used to be able to right click on the start button to see if an account has admin rights but this is not the case with Win7. Should I be looking some place else?

    Thanks for the help.
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #2

    NavyChief said:
    I'm running Win7 Pro in a domain environment. I seem to get allot of pop-ups telling me I'm need to run as administrator. I have admin rights but not full admin rights. If there is such a thing. Any ideas?

    I used to be able to right click on the start button to see if an account has admin rights but this is not the case with Win7. Should I be looking some place else?

    Thanks for the help.

    Hi NC and welcome

    There pop ups you are seeing are from the new user account control (UAC) it is now and has been a PITA. I always shut it off. It is supposed to be a security feature. There are instructions here on how to change it. User Account Control - UAC - Change Notification Settings

    Hope that helps

    Ken J_
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  3. Posts : 355
    Windows 7 Professional X64
       #3

    You can also activate the Super Admin account in windows 7 and use that if you want run a CMD Windows as admin (right-click and select run as administrator) then type this into the window
    net user administrator /active:yes
    then when you logout the administrator account will be there!
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  4. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks for the info. I'll give them a try
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  5. Posts : 11,990
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
       #5

    brayway said:
    You can also activate the Super Admin account in windows 7 and use that if you want run a CMD Windows as admin (right-click and select run as administrator) then type this into the window
    net user administrator /active:yes
    then when you logout the administrator account will be there!
    Please tell me more about the Super Administrator. And thanks for this tip.
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  6. Posts : 4,772
    Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
       #6

    The built-in Administrator account is an account that has full access and permission on the computer. Here is the tutorial for more info Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

    Hope this helps,
    Captain
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  7. Posts : 274
    Windows 7
       #7

    As per Microsoft, the builtin Admin account no longer has any unique features that are unavailable to other admin accounts. All it does it disable UAC and IE's Protected Mode by default.
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  8. Posts : 11,990
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
       #8

    Thank you, Capt. Jack. It did help and it worked. I did find that surfasb is correct. It appears to have no more rights than my administrator account.
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