Even when your userID is set as an administrator sometimes you have to run things using the “RunAsAdministrator” option.
I don’t know why this should be true, but it is true.
I was trying to get someone’s computer to connect to the Internet. I won’t bore you with details, but the short version was I finally had to run IE as adinistrator to get my changes to the Proxy settings to persist. That was when running a userID that was set up as an administrator.
If it had been my PC I would have given it flying lessons and gone to get an Android tablet.
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That is true also of Win7, but usually comes up in the UAC box that asks 'are you really sure you want this thing to make changes to your confuser' dialog box. You get a 'yes' and a 'run as admin' option. Some things will not install unless run as admin even if your profile is set as admin..
Not sure if this holds true on WinhAte or not (the User Account Control box thing).