Hello! I have a problem. I am working as an IT Supporter and I tried to install WIN7 to my laptop. It was succesfull. As an IT Supporter I am a member of a domain in which I have administrator privileges. I added the correct group to the Administrators group on my laptop, but still I don't have administrator rights on my laptop, when I am trying to log in with my domian account. I have no right to install anything. What could be the problem?

IT Supporter, From what i understand you cant install any software on your machine. When your logged on with an adminstrator account. Witch is quite normal on windows 7 / Windows Vista. Since the release of windows Vista microsoft introduced the UAC (User Account Control). One of the features of this is that even when you log on to your windows 7 machine. It strips your admin rights form your admin account (this is to prevent the installation of mallware, etc). So, if you want to install a software you need to explicitly request those admin credentinals. To do this simply right click on the executable of your software and select the option install as administrator. If this still doesn't work for you open an evaluated command prompt (http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/02/17/how-to-open-elevated-command-prompt-with-administrator-privileges-in-windows-vista/). And then you can type the whoami command to verify your effective priveliges. The following msdn document explains UAC more indepth. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628(WS.10).aspx Kind Regards DFTIM me - TWiTTer: @DFTER

Hi, I would like to suggest you check if your user account is one member of the local administrators group or your user account is joined to a group which deny to perform some operations. To test the issue, you may create a new domain user account and add it to local administrators group. This account can install programs, can’t it? Regards,Arthur Li - MSFT