I've tried several rootkit detectors and they didn't find any rootkit but could be. I suspect more of a mixup in the registry from the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1.
I noticed in 8.1 I can no longer create a local user - i needed to have a microsoft account. I created a new user on this machine...
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I do have another admin account the machine and set the UAC to default and rebooted - still no change. (UAC had been set one level down).
The computer is not on a domain - its our home computer. It was in a network workgroup. I removed it from there and rebooted - no...
I'm on windows 8.1 and since i updated from 8.0 to 8.1 when i Run as Administrator (on the command prompt from the desktop running as a regular user) it just says "Your system administrator has blocked this program. For more information, contact your system administrator".
It used to prompt for...