For whatever reason, the default account reports that it is an admin account, but it doesn't always act like it.
I have 3 SATA drives, each partitioned in 2 (all NTFS), C/D, E/F and G/H. C had Windows 7 installed on it and it was running fine. I tried the CP in Virtualbox when it was released and decided to do a clean install. Imaged my 7 drive elsewhere and booted up 8 from USB. I ran through the installer and created a local account (not the Live/Hotmail/Email option). In User Accounts it reports as Admin in the same way as Windows 7. First thing I did (as always) was to disable UAC and reboot.
I tried using CMD to disable hibernation with 'powercfg -h off' but it was rejected due to requiring elevated access. Same deal for any Powershell commands. Then I installed WinRAR and tried extracting an existing archive on E, but that failed due to lack of permissions. Navigated to 'Program Files' and tried making a new text file but it wasn't even an option, only 'Folder' was given. Same deal with the AppData folder. Next I installed KMPlayer and tried adding media files from G to a playlist but it was blocked, so I tried changing settings. They changed fine while I had the player opened, but when I restarted it they had reset (the ini file in the program folder wasn't being written to).
I went back and performed a clean install of 7 on C with the same options as 8 and everything I tried worked. Another format of C and then installed 8 again, same problems. The account says admin but it's acting like a regular user account. That said, I can take control of drives and files if I go through the 'Properties > Security' dialogs, and if I explicitly run programs with 'Run as administrator' then they behave as normal, but I shouldn't have to do this.
Does 8 have an extra security layer that 7 doesn't? Can anyone else run something like 'powercfg -h off' without being blocked?
Any ideas? Thanks.
I have 3 SATA drives, each partitioned in 2 (all NTFS), C/D, E/F and G/H. C had Windows 7 installed on it and it was running fine. I tried the CP in Virtualbox when it was released and decided to do a clean install. Imaged my 7 drive elsewhere and booted up 8 from USB. I ran through the installer and created a local account (not the Live/Hotmail/Email option). In User Accounts it reports as Admin in the same way as Windows 7. First thing I did (as always) was to disable UAC and reboot.
I tried using CMD to disable hibernation with 'powercfg -h off' but it was rejected due to requiring elevated access. Same deal for any Powershell commands. Then I installed WinRAR and tried extracting an existing archive on E, but that failed due to lack of permissions. Navigated to 'Program Files' and tried making a new text file but it wasn't even an option, only 'Folder' was given. Same deal with the AppData folder. Next I installed KMPlayer and tried adding media files from G to a playlist but it was blocked, so I tried changing settings. They changed fine while I had the player opened, but when I restarted it they had reset (the ini file in the program folder wasn't being written to).
I went back and performed a clean install of 7 on C with the same options as 8 and everything I tried worked. Another format of C and then installed 8 again, same problems. The account says admin but it's acting like a regular user account. That said, I can take control of drives and files if I go through the 'Properties > Security' dialogs, and if I explicitly run programs with 'Run as administrator' then they behave as normal, but I shouldn't have to do this.
Does 8 have an extra security layer that 7 doesn't? Can anyone else run something like 'powercfg -h off' without being blocked?
Any ideas? Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 CP
- CPU
- 2500k @4.4
- Motherboard
- Z68AP-D3
- Memory
- 8GB Corsair Blue
- Graphics Card(s)
- GTX460
- Sound Card
- None
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG IPS225
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 3 internal SATA 6 drives and 3 assorted external USB 2.0 drives
- PSU
- OCuk 650W
- Internet Speed
- 30/3MB