jimmuh

If you think about it what you are seeing makes sense. The account is already
an administrator account. If you click a choice indicating that you wish to
change the account type, the alternative is chosen automatically for you. If
you select the Administrator type then the ability to change is grayed out
because -- you are already and administrator.

"Vista Advocate - Now" wrote:

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> "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv@invalid.org> wrote in message
> news:uothzakeHHA.3648@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > When Vista is installed the first user account you set up is automatically
> > given administrator privileges. What happened to this account? Did you
> > demote this account to a Standard User?
>
> I didn't do a thing. It says it's an administrator account when I see the
> icon in the User Accounts section of Control Panel, but when I open the
> "Change your account type," the "standard" button is selected. I select the
> "administrator" button, but the "change account type" selection box
> immediately greys out.
>
> All rather odd and not a little annoying.
>
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> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ronnie Vernon
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows Shell/User
> >
> >
> > "Vista Advocate - Now" <[c_nulli@hotmail.com]> wrote in message
> > news:uqKddejeHHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> Using Vista Home Premium and want to give myself Administrator
> >> privileges. When I choose to change my account type from Standard to
> >> Administrator, the "change account" box is greyed out.
> >>
> >> I am the only user of the machine and the only other account set up
> >> (don't know how) is an account called ASP.NET Machine Account.
> >>
> >> I want to control my system.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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