Hi Frankenddude, welcome to the Seven Forums.
A normal user account with administrator rights is not the same than built-in administrator account. The built-in administrator, sometimes also called as Super User, is the most powerful of all different user accounts in Windows, and because a normal user could do some serious harm if he was always using this account, it's by default disabled. This tutorial tells you more:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html
However, you can temporarily use these super rights by launching a program by right clicking its icon and selecting
Run as administrator from the context menu. For instance if you want to extract a zipped packet to some of the protected folders like
Program Files or
Windows, start the application you use for extracting (WinRAR, WinZip etc.) by right clicking its shortcut or icon, select
Run as administrator and then use the applications menus to bring the packet you want to extract to application, then extract it where you want to. Running WinRAR for instance as an administrator let's you to extract packets wherever you want to.
If the packet is a self-extracting exe, just right click it and select Run as administrator.
Kari
