Admin rights using windows 7

[Barney Trubble]

I have been trying to delete some spyware, using spybot, however, it keeps giving me the message that I need to have admin rights to do this.

 

It's my laptop and I never even remember setting any admin rights, there is only me that uses the laptop. The OS is windows 7. I have looked in control panel and can see the admin icon but I can't work out a way of changing it so that the laptop assumes I am the admin.

 

How do I change this please?

[Barney Trubble]

I have been trying to delete some spyware, using spybot, however, it keeps giving me the message that I need to have admin rights to do this.

 

It's my laptop and I never even remember setting any admin rights, there is only me that uses the laptop. The OS is windows 7. I have looked in control panel and can see the admin icon but I can't work out a way of changing it so that the laptop assumes I am the admin.

 

How do I change this please?

[Saint_clark]

There must be more than one user account on your computer if this is happening (I think). You'll need to log into the "admin" account to change the privileges.

[Saint_clark]

There must be more than one user account on your computer if this is happening (I think). You'll need to log into the "admin" account to change the privileges.

[Anders]

Maybe try right clicking on the icon for the spybot program and then "Run as administrator"

[Anders]

Maybe try right clicking on the icon for the spybot program and then "Run as administrator"