I had some issues when installing programs partly due to the fact that the admin rights of the admin account on win 7 is limited. It is in practice not a full admin account. This is a security precaution in win vista and 7. This is how you enable / disable to admin account. The info was provided to me by Dell support. It is recommended not to enable the admin due to security reasons and if you like to run a file as admin right click and choose “run as admin”.
Here is the steps to enable / disable.
- Right click on the command promt an choose “run as admin”.
- type “net user administrator /active:yes” (only the part inside the quotation marks)
- Quickly login to the admin account and set the password.
- To disable the admin do the same as point 1 and type instead
“net user administrator /active:no” (only the part inside the quotation marks)
This is not recommended for security reasons and is done at your own risk. But might be good to know if you need to do it.
