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I have recently gotten a new computer and have upgraded to Windows 10 (though I suspect this is a problem in other versions as well.)
My user is an administrator. I have set UAC to the lowest level. I have changed owner to my user on the whole c:\
disk (including the hosts file.)
Still, when I run notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
, edit the file, and try to save, it won't let me. If I run notepad as administrator first, then open the file, I can save without problems.
But, why, after the measurements I have taken, isn't my user regarded as an administrator user? What am I missing here, in order to make my user an actual administrator (and not just a regular user with some fancy label in user accounts)?
Updated question: When you have a user that is an Administrator
, why is this user's permissions not affected by the security group Administrators
, but rather the security group Users
?
1These limitations are put in place to keep people from "accidentally" infesting a system with malicious code. Plus, any IT professional that runs his/her PC as administrator probably has administrative access to other systems and can easily generate an RGE (Resume Generating Event). If I had a consultant or a JR admin ask me this, I would personally make sure that every device he/she has access to has extremely prohibitive rights and only let him/her run Citrix apps that I have personally vetted. – None – 2015-08-19T00:25:07.927
3I don't see the point of having the same security mechanisms for my 63 year old father who believes everything he sees on the internet, and me who have grown up with computers to such an extent that I'm suprised one is not attached to me. I don't want to spend time bypassing security measures that in practice offers me no security. Then it's pretty annoying that I have to spend even more time disabling these measures, and even if I appearantly have, they are still there. – Tobb – 2015-08-19T06:21:55.037