Change user accounts vista

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. You cannot change a user account by just changing the name. Your computer is behaving exactly as it should. The Fry's Electronics user was a generic user created by Fry's where you bought the computer, a floor model perhaps? From an administrative account, rename the account to what it originally was. Call the latter "CompAdmin" or "Tech" or the like.

To do this, follow these steps:. On the Compatibility tab, click to select the Run this program as an administrator check box, and then click OK. The Compatibility tab is not available for some program icons. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. For help with common system maintenance tasks in Windows Vista, visit the following Microsoft Web page:. Fix problems with common system maintenance tasks.

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This security feature, even if somewhat hardening system security, can often become a nuisance by constantly prompting local administrative users to run applications with elevated priviledges. In Control Panel, click User Accounts. Restart to apply the change. Click the Windows Start button, in the search dialog type: secpol.

Select the Disabled option, then click OK. Close the Local Security Settings window. Note: This method will still prompt for credentials when installing applications. To change the elavation prompt for administrators 1. Scroll down to: "User Account Control: Behavior to the elevation prompt for administrators" 4.

Select one of the following settings: - Elevate without prompting to run tasks requesting elevation automatically - Prompt for credentials to as for user name and password input for tasks requesting elevation - Propmt for consent default for administrators 5.

Note: There is a setting in the Local Security Policy window for "User Account Control: Behavior to the elevation prompt for standard users" which can be set to either deny or prompt elevation requests for standard users, it does not provide for skipping the prompt for standard users.

Agree, not in vista. I had the problem in Vista of my administrator account ie me, as the sole user of the machine and sole account blocking the programmes I wanted to install.