Administrator account problems

[JFW]

Hello:
I am the only user of my computer. The only account on it is mine and it's
marked as "Administrator." I want to rename my DVD/CD drives, but. I'm told
"You have to log in as Administrator" to do this. Why aren't I already
logged in as Administrator? and how can I be logged in as Administrator all
the time?

TIA for any help.
Jude

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Click the Start Orb, "Administrative Tools" menu/ Rightclick the icon for
"Computer Management", and click 'run as administrator' Disk Management is a
folder there.

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[Bob]

Right click Computer Management>Run as Administrator.

 

[AlexB]

In addition to what Mark and Bob said, red this. This will give you a
permanent solution. The write-up covers a somewhat wider scope than what you
need.

You are not the administrator and will never be. Administrator is an object.

You can temporarily give yourselves rights to perform some operations as if
you were Administrator, yes. Your power still will be limited. Actually you
do not need more than that.
In order to do what you want you will have to open "Local Users And Groups"
GUI (either typing lusrmgr.msc in Windows\system32\ -- do not forget to open
Command Prompt as "run as Administrator" - take a notice!!!) or if you have
Home or Home Premium you should go thru Control panel> System and
Maintenance>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Local Users and Groups.

Open up thumbnail Groups, open up Group "Administrators" (nb: it is plural)
and you will see the object "administrator" in there. Add yourselves to this
group. Close the GUI.
You may have a somewhat easier life from now on but it may not be enough.
You may also need to establish yourselves as a person who has the right to
write into certain folders if you want. Go to that folder, left
click>>Properties>>Security tab>>Edit>>Add>>type in your name>>Close that
window, Check checkbox "Full Control">>Apply>>OK.
You may also need to delete Inheritance. Click Advanced. That will give you
an option to uncheck a checkbox and the onwership rights of other objects
will be terminated.
Now you will have the right to do what you want in this folder and ALL its
subfolders. You will never be denied any access. You should exercise this
power judiciously and on a limited basis.

 

[John]

Just an FYI. There are two types of administrator accounts. The Real
Administrator account is disabled by default. To enable it requires going
into group policy, if your Vista flavor supports gpedit.msc.

The other administrator is a user with Administer rights. It's ~90% as
powerful as the Real Administrator but sometimes only the Real Administrator
can do a task.