I recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows 7 and started installing my software. All of a sudden from one of those programs I got the message that I had to have administrator rights to run it. Say what?

I went into the Control Panel and attempted to change my User Account to Administrator. Nothing. Every time I went back in it said Standard again. So how the hell was I supposed to make myself an Administrator when I wasn’t an Administrator to start with? (Not to mention, why wasn’t the first user account I created the Administrator in the first place?)

I began searching. There must have been dozens of forums where people had asked the same question – how do I make myself an Administrator in Windows 7? Continue reading →