"Super Administrator" account and I still don't have permissions?

The main account I use on my Windows 7 (formerly Vista 64) machine is the hidden Super Administrator. I do that because I want to be able to do whatever I want on my computer without nag screens and whatnot.

However, even as a "super administrator," I find myself running into errors that tell me I don't have permission. For example, if I go to Credential Manager, it tells me that I don't have permission to save files to that area. Isn't the point of the super admin account that I have permission to do anything?

I did at one point change the username of the super admin account to a more interesting username, would this be causing this conflict? When I try to revert the super admin username to just Administrator (to test this theory), it tells me there's already a user account with that name (Administrator).

The other account on this machine is a regular administrator and it has no problem accessing the Credential Manager.

Any ideas why my super admin account is so weak?

One solution might be to just stop using the Super Admin account, I suppose. Is the Easy Transfer application included with 7 the best way to do move my documents, desktop settings, etc. to the regular admin account, the one that seems to work?

 

you should get rid of thinking you need to be super admin. get back to a normal user account. then learn about permissions and how to change them, and suddenly you don't care about being admin, and prefer the savety of not accidentally mess up your system by not being admin when not needed.

as you then learn how to configure your system to access, when needed.



changing the name doesn't change it's os-side name (f.e. the folders of a user "Bob" stay c:\Users\Bob even while you changed it to "Tom". and on the network, he still identifies itself as "Bob").

every user can have rights to stuff, or getting rights denied. the super admin, by default, has rights to harm the system. but it, f.e. doesn't grant him rights on files from another system just for the fun of it.

there are two things: access rights, and ownership. certain files are owned by the system, as the system relies on them. by default, even the super admin can't just touch'n'kill them.

get back to normal user, first. get used, that the system blocks you from killing it, just as your friends block you from killing them. get used, that's a good thing.

and then, step by step, learn, how you can circumvent it's savetyguards very easily, but only when needed. that way, your system will be up and alive for years without a reinstall ever needed, as you can't mess it up by accident (or any virus, or buggy software, or hw fault, etc)

 

+1 Super well said.

 

Don't use the admin account, period. If you're using it for anything but system updates or administration, then you're needlessly exposing the entirety of your system to viruses and other malware.

The reason why security requires that users run with minimum priviliges is so that, in the event of an infection, the damage that the virus or rogue process can do is limited. In this way damage is compartmentalized.