UAC as Admin???

[hackerman1]

hmmm, do a restart.

 

[jsmoline]

Did a restart and got the same thing.

 

[hackerman1]

hmm, it´s a bit hard to answer, not knowing exactly what you did.
as i said, it worked for me...
but there are other more experienced experts on accounts / rights / UAC here at the forum, someone must be able to help you.

i´m signing off now, it´s bedtime.

 

[jsmoline]

hmm, it´s a bit hard to answer, not knowing exactly what you did.
as i said, it worked for me...
but there are other more experienced experts on accounts / rights / UAC here at the forum, someone must be able to help you.

i´m signing off now, it´s bedtime.

Got it working. Thanks

 

[Corrine]

Whew! Glad to hear!

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[jsmoline]

Posted another question that is related. Now that I have made the changes and renamed that account to my wifes name, It still shows up at the top of the start menu with my name. I can live with that if I have to,but, I'll bet there is an easy fix, right? Thanks,
John

 

[Tepid]

No,, if you rename an existing account, it is tied to it's original name underneath it all.
If you want to fully change the name completely, you have to create an account with that name.

Incidentally, I would have just left the main admin account as admin and just created a new Standard user account. There is no reason to create a new admin account and then change the old admin to standard.
To me, that is creating more work than needed.

I missed something,,ooppss.


More Info - ....
I could be wrong, but I don't think this is the same as days of old NT, where you wanted to create a new admin account and disable the original Built-in admin account due to the SID S-1-5-21.
It used to be defined as good security practice to do this as the built-in admin account was a well know SID that could be used to hack the system
Something I might look into. If that is the case, then this is how it should be done....

Install and setup windows
Create new accounts (Standard User and Admin accounts, at least one each)
Then go in and don't delete but disable the original admin account
This will change the SID, so that the original S-1-5-21 (Admin account) is not the same as the Built-In SID

This could be an old way of thinking though.

 

[hackerman1]

hi !

"Incidentally, I would have just left the main admin account as admin and just created a new Standard user account. There is no reason to create a new admin account and then change the old admin to standard.
To me, that is creating more work than needed."

codyw wanted to keep everything on the admin-account.
otherwise i would of course have been easier just to make a new user-account.

 

[jsmoline]

Thanks on the name info. I created a new admin account. Then changed the original admin account to standard user account. Real easy and fast. Set new passwords. Now we log in to this account and everything is the same. The new Admin account is very basic as I haven't made any changes to it yet. Whenever I try to change something in this new user account I am prompted to enter the admin password and continue. This is what I wanted. The new Admin account does whatever I want when I log in. I think I'm where I want to be now. Thanks to you all,
John

 

[Greg S]

Thanks on the name info. I created a new admin account. Then changed the original admin account to standard user account. Real easy and fast.
John

Anyone know if this is different in Win 7 than in XP? I assume it is. In XP doing this was not quite as secure as just creating a new standard/limited user account and going from there. Since the new limited account once was the old admin account there was still issues with ownership and lingering full control rights.

Wilders Security Forums - View Single Post - SuRun: Easily running Windows XP as a limited user

 

[jsmoline]

I never did it in XP, but it was a breeze in 7, thanks to help in this forum.

 

[richc46]

Yes solution was back on frame 8. Glad that you used it.

 

[pparks1]

Anyway, I personally want to know precisely what is gong on at all times on my computer. I don't care that I launched a program that I closed 10 minutes ago and I get a UAC prompt asking me to approve the elevation. To me, it is just second nature.

I feel the same way and I honestly cannot keep track of every single thing that every single application does...so I like to just get the notice.

I switched over my work computer to using a standard user account. It's a bit annoying on a domain as I have to input the username as well as the password....but I'm getting used to it. I haven't had too much trouble in the past few hours and only get a prompt or two.