set your account to have admin rights
"AMLien" <AMLien@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all! So I apparently royally screwed up yesterday and set my User
> Account
> to be a standard account. Now that I've shut down and restarted, everytime
> I
> try to do anything like copy files to certain locations, install updates,
> etc. (which I do multiple times a day) it won't let me and asks me for the
> Administrator's password. The problem is, I never SET the Administrator's
> password. And it won't let me just leave the password field blank. Is
> there
> ANYTHING I can do to resolve this? (Please say yes. LOL!)
>
> I've browsed the other posts here, but haven't found a solution that works
> yet (although I could be missing it). Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!