Recent content by chillybmf

Great advice! Thankyou sir, that worked a treat. I logged in as administrator, created a new admin account and then deleted my old standard one. All is well. Odd that it would not let make those changes to the default account, but i shan't worry about why. Thank you!

Hi, i have recently migrated to Win8 from Win7 Pro and am coming to grips with the elevated security MS has dropped on us. Either by design or accident when i installed Win8 i made my account a standard account not an Admin account. Following the steps outlined on this site, which has been...