My Win7 would not recognize me as administrator until I reinstalled Win7 and set myself up as administrator. Best Buy set up my computer in such a way that I would have to come back to them to do any administrator stuff. Usually when I get a new computer, the first thing I do is wipe and reinstall the OS. This time I was too lazy until it crashed.
BEST BUY is where I bought this one and it did NOT come with original WINDOWS disks!!
They told me that wqasn’t BEST BUY’s fault, it was HP’s fault!
I scramed at them, they sold me an upgrade for works to WORD, then when I needed the original WORKS disk to do the upgrade, I did’t have it!
scumwaffles, I complained loud enough, they did it free
Just as an aside... there is a lot of wisdom behind the idea of initially setting up your admin account... but also setting up a standard user account to actually use for your day-to-day operations. That way, even if the computer becomes somehow compromised by a virus, trojan or whatnot, your account doesn’t have the permissions to do some of the more wicked things to the computer.
Ideally, we should all be operating daily in a reduced-permission account and only use an account with root rights for the times you need it, like installing something new, or making deeper system changes.
I finally set up my Dad’s computer that way... and it has saved his butt (and a few of my weekends) a few times already.