Admin access Win 7

Hi nefret,

I request you to go to the start menu, control panel and user accounts. Please check if it says “Administrator” under your user name. Also check if there are any other accounts on the system. I request you to follow the steps below for getting the Administrator access by selecting the User account which is labeled Administrator on the user name

 1. Click Start.

2. Click Computer (you can also find this icon on the desktop).

3. Right click on the Hard Disk icon where your OS is installed and click Properties.

4. Click the Security tab.

5. Click the Advanced tab.

6. Click the Change Permissions button located after the Permission Entries list.

7. A new window will appear on your screen. This window contains a list of all the user accounts available on your computer.

8. Select the user account you want to give total control over your operating system and click the Edit button.

Now, tick the checkbox labeled “Total Control” and press OK.

I hope you find this useful.

Please reply for any queries.

Thanks and Regards
Harish R
#iworkfordell

As long as you are an administrator, you should have access to all the places that Windows allows.  In Windows 7, there are protected areas that you, even as an administrator, are discouraged (and prevented, although there are ways around it) from going, like saving/moving files in the root of C:, Program Files, etc.  What folders are you having problems with saving in?

I am the Administrator and do have "Full Control", however, when I did the Windows 7 clean install on my new HDD I lost access to several files that had not been a problem before. For example, if I create a MS Word template and try to save it in the templates folder, I get an error message that I don't have permission to save to that file and can only save in the My Documents folder.  Another instance, when I tried to delete pages from an Adobe Acrobat X Pro PDF file, I got access denied message. I have gone to several Microsoft boards and discovered that a lot of users have encountered the same UAC issues with Administrator access permissions in Windows 7.  I'm not trying to access or modify the hidden system files.  Several respondents on the Microsoft forums tried the suggested Microsoft workarounds, which included taking Ownership of files and folders but many people indicated that the convoluted instructions actually made the problem worse.

FYI, when I revisited Drive C properties > security> advanced>edit, I noticed that Administrator had Full Control, There is more than one profile and is the status of all the profiles.

I had already taken these steps before getting frustrated. As stated below, these issues were not present until I reinstalled a clean installation of Windows 7 on a new HDD.  I did not transfer settings from the original installation on my old HDD, which was a Win7 upgrade from Windows Vista Ultimate.

I am the Administrator and do have "Full Control", however, when I did the Windows 7 clean install on my new HDD I lost access to several files that had not been a problem before. For example, if I create a MS Word template and try to save it in the templates folder, I get an error message that I don't have permission to save to that file and can only save in the My Documents folder.  Another instance, when I tried to delete pages from an Adobe Acrobat X Pro PDF file, I got access denied message. I have gone to several Microsoft boards and discovered that a lot of users have encountered the same UAC issues with Administrator access permissions in Windows 7.  I'm not trying to access or modify the hidden system files.  Several respondents on the Microsoft forums tried the suggested Microsoft workarounds, which included taking Ownership of files and folders but many people indicated that the convoluted instructions actually made the problem worse.

FYI, when I revisited Drive C properties > security> advanced>edit, I noticed that Administrator had Full Control, There is more than one profile and is the status of all the profiles.

Hi nefret,

We have tried all the possible steps to have the issue fixed. You can go ahead and do the operating system reinstallation for having this issue fixed. Please find the link below which has the procedure of clean reinstallation of operating system.

http://dell.to/ho6Eq2

Please reply in case of any queries

Thanks and regards
Harish R
#iworkfordell