This Win7 Ultimate OS keeps setting me as a user not administrator. I understand why--a user without administrator rights is safer because malware in theory isn't supposed to be able to write to the registry if it gets into the system. The trouble is, today it isn't letting me assume those administrator privileges (previously it looked like I had two accounts, now it shows only one). I can't get my Spybot Search and Destroy to completely finish installing updates because of this.

I'm sure I'll find an answer, this is an annoyance. I'll proceed by restarting the computer.

I'm posting this morning mainly to say that after going for a long time not using Lavasoft's AdAware (the free one) I've installed it to see how it works. I think it was incompatible with something in XP-Pro after a while and was removed and replaced with AVG, if I can recall the steps I took.

Anyway, now I have Spyware Blaster in the background, along with Spybot Search&Destroy. I use WinPatrol and Kerio firewall (the last free version) and I'm running avast! antivirus. So AdAware may be overkill, but I think there is a niche it serves that might have prevented the malware I had to dredge out of my system a couple of weeks ago. We'll see how it goes.

Win7 is a rather bossy operating system.

SRS