Administrator account logs in as a standard user on a Windows 7 SP1 machine
In most cases you need to reload Windows after exchanging the motherboard.
October 12th, 2012 6:14pm

My first guess is the "baby admin" versus "real admin". It's something MS added in Win7 for some stupid reason.
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October 13th, 2012 11:44am

My first guess is the "baby admin" versus "real admin". It's something MS added in Win7 for some stupid reason. Under Windows 7 all admin accounts are equal. However, you can put any of them into an "elevated mode" in response to UAC challenges.
October 13th, 2012 1:06pm

Hi, I hope somebody can help me out here. I have a user with a laptop that runs Windows 7 SP1 32-bit and is part of a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain. Since the system board was replaced, there has been an odd problem that occurs when you log in as an admin, be it domain or local. The account is not being recognised as Administrator, instead it is being seen as a standard domain user and is having group policy settings applied to it i.e. cant see the C: drive etc. This is the ONLY machine that has this problem out of all the machines on the domain. I wanted to try deleting/recreating the account but I do not have access to the system properties or the relevant control panel item (due to GPMC). I have tried using the command line to access certain administrative tools but nothing happens when I hit enter. I have also tried to re-image the laptop and this worked initially, but when I came back to the laptop a week later to check on it, the problem had returned. I am totally lost now and am obviously restricted as to what I can try. Does anybody at all have any ideas what could be causing this or how I can fix it permanently? Could it be a virus?? I do not want to change any GPMC settings if I can help it. Any help would be much appreciated PS- I will not be able to check the replies to this question until a week from now so please excuse me if I do not reply NelcBoy
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October 14th, 2012 11:50am

In most cases you need to reload Windows after exchanging the motherboard.
October 14th, 2012 6:39pm

Hi, As the laptop has joined domain, please login the laptop using domain administrator account and run lusrmgr.msc to check if the domain user account or the local administrator account list in Administrators Group. Also, you can use whoami utility to troubleshoot the issue. Reference: Managing Authorization and Access Control Hope this helps. Jeremy Wu TechNet Community Support
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October 16th, 2012 12:48am

Thanks, I will give this a try Nelcboy
November 10th, 2012 8:52am

Hi, Thanks for your response but I have reimaged the laptop since the motherboard was changed over. All went back to normal for a while but the problem returned. NelcBoy
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November 10th, 2012 8:55am

Hi, Thanks for your response but I have reimaged the laptop since the motherboard was changed over. All went back to normal for a while but the problem returned. NelcBoy This means that the problem is caused by some third-party software that you run on your machine. If it was a Windows problem then we would have heard about it a long time ago, considering that there is an installation base of several million machines. What it is we cannot tell you but maybe a Google search will unearth some hints. An easy way to find out goes like this: Create an image of a flawless installation.Keep careful notes of everything you install.Create a new image once every few days.When the problem returns, restore the most recent image, then re-apply the software changes one at a time.
November 10th, 2012 9:24am

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