Admin with restricted rights

[brett]

I turned on UAC and am ad admin on my box. I open Windows Explorer
and try to browse drives. I get an Access Denied popup when doing
this. Why is an admin restricted?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

It's not UAC, it's permissions. An admin account does not have sufficient
privileges to access system folders unless elevation is specifically
invoked. You should be able to browse folders within your user environment,
but nothing in any folder with a system attribute.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[brett]

It's not UAC, it's permissions.

When UAC is turned off, I have no problems.