[GRLUG] Admin rights

Steve Romanow slestak989 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 09:41:09 EDT 2011


So the fact it is part of a domain is moot if it is your notebook.
IIRC, the Administrator account is not even enabled by default in 7.
Is this 7 pro, home premium?  which version.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> It is my notebook and I was really just hoping to add rights to my
> account/login for downloading software / updates.
>
> I have software programs that do not pertain to work already but need
> someone every time I want to load or update something and it's getting
> REALLY OLD.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Part of a domain.......... yea
>>> that's another issue.
>>
>> If it's a company-owned laptop and they don't want you to install
>> stuff, then you really shouldn't. You need to get permission to use
>> admin on it or get your own laptop to use for your devious plans. In
>> the opinion of this Network Administrator, booting it from a LiveCD or
>> persisting LiveUSB is as far as you should go.
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