hi on win7 there is only one account and it is admin account. i have logged in with that account and opened the command prompt and tried to remove a service. It says access denied. how to tell system that i am admin so that it can remove the service.

From Computer Manger -> Local Users & Groups open Administrator group and you will see the members there. What service are you trying to remove and how? Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ http://publications.sivarajan.com/ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Your "problem" lies with UAC. UAC runs applications with a standard user token as default. To run the command prompt as admin you could for example use one of these approaches: 1: Make a shortcut to the command prompt on the desktop. Right click the shortcut and select "Properties". In the "Shortcut" tab, select "Advanced...". Make sure "Run as administrator" is selected and click "Ok". Click "Ok" to exit the properties page. This shortcut will now always be run as an administrator (Normal users will have to enter privileged account information and administrators have to confirm when run because of UAC) For other programs that does not belong to your specific version of Windows you can also use the "Compatibility" tab in the "Properties" page to make the application run as an administrator. 2: Make a shortcut to the command prompt on the desktop. Right click the shortcut and select "Run as administrator", or Shift-right click and select "Run as different user" (if you would like another account to run the program). This will make the program run as administrator only that one time and you will have to repeat steps 1-2 if you want to do it again. 3: (This method is only if you have the search bar enabled in the start menu, classic start menu does not work) Open the start menu. Write "cmd" and press Ctrl-Shift-Enter to run the program as an administrator (be sure that Windows finds the "cmd.exe" application after you write "cmd" or it will just start an advanced search for your phrase). I do not know of any method running the command prompt from the "Run" box without complicating everything a lot, so you should use one of the methods I described above.