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 highly useful, i have learned that the home edition of win8, which i have, is rather more useless in changing many settings that were taken for granted in win7.
My issue in changing my account to an admin account is after successfully activating the admin account and signing into that, the changes i make in that account to my standard account, are not saved or reflected when i log back into my standard (or what should now be an admin) account.
My standard account remains a standard account no matter how many times i log into the admin account and change the account type.
Is there a step i am missing? I am more than frustrated by the lack of ease win8 has infused into what should be a simple process of having my account be the administrator account.
Thanks in advance for your help and please query me at your leisure for any clarity or information you need.
Cheers!
Neilo.
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 highly useful, i have learned that the home edition of win8, which i have, is rather more useless in changing many settings that were taken for granted in win7.
My issue in changing my account to an admin account is after successfully activating the admin account and signing into that, the changes i make in that account to my standard account, are not saved or reflected when i log back into my standard (or what should now be an admin) account.
My standard account remains a standard account no matter how many times i log into the admin account and change the account type.
Is there a step i am missing? I am more than frustrated by the lack of ease win8 has infused into what should be a simple process of having my account be the administrator account.
Thanks in advance for your help and please query me at your leisure for any clarity or information you need.
Cheers!
Neilo.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win8 Home
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- Core I5
- Motherboard
- Asrock Z77
- Memory
- Corsair Vengence 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Gigabyte GTX 560ti
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Bitdefender 2014