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Elevated prompt and title in a non-elevated command window means what?
I am a standard user:
there is no "Administrator" next to my name when I look at "Your Info" for my account in user settings.
the output of "net localgroup administrators" does not contain my user name.
I am on a domain-managed machine and I am not a domain admin either.
I click the Start key, write "cmd", then right-click on "Command Prompt" and choose "Run as Adminstrator". When UAC asks for admin credentials, the default choice is my own user name; I give my own password and hit 'enter'.
The command window that comes up has as its title: "Adminstrator: Command Prompt"; and the working directory prompt reads "C:\WINDOWS\system32>"
I still don't have admin privileges, I think. At least, for example, both the commands "net session" and "net user administrator /active:yes" both return the same result: "System error 5 as occurred. // Access is denied."
Is this normal? If it is, then all the countless posts which say that the title and prompt of the command prompt are sure ways to tell if it is elevated are simply wrong?
Thank you,
scott