OK, I'm the be all and end all on my computer but I get the message "access denied to folder: need admin permissions" (or something close to that) every now and then, I think mostly when I want to copy folders. The dialog box has a "Continue" button with a shield icon. Clicking on Continue button does the needful. But point is why? UAC is disabled on this machine (set to never notify), I'm an admin user and I've further edited permissions to give myself full permissions. Stuff I noticed: 1) This is happening everytime while trying to copy a file into C:\windows or delete something there. E.g. I wanted to delete the contents of C:\windows\software distribution\download and I get this message. 2) When I edited permissions to give myself full, there were multiple popups about it not being applicable to various folders such as c:\swapfile, c:\windows and so on. This machine is dual booting 7 and 8 on a single hdd.
Nope, that doesn't help. This behavior is different from win7 because as an identical user there I never get these prompts.
UAC is never off without a registry edit in Windows 8. You can turn UAC off, but then all Metro apps will refuse to open.
No, I'm using the regular admin account (i.e. a user with admin rights), that's where this issue occurs. No such problem in the inbuilt admin account, so now I've just copied over my profile to the superadmin's and am functioning from there.
Bingo! I had completely forgotten about EnableLUA! I set it to zero and the problem's gone. Thanks for reminding me!
Does anyone know if it is possible to unlock the build-in Administrator account, so you can use all the metro apps? If you enable Net user administrator /active:yes you cannot access apps like reader etc. Edit found it. build-in Administrator account now works with all my apps