Win 81. and built-in admin account

Banzai_Joe · 21 Jan 2015 at 12:12

Hi all,
I'm logged into a win8.1 machine as domain\administrator, so not strictly speaking the 'built-in admin account', yet i cannot access internet explorer.
This is nuckin futs. I need access to IE to do certain admin tasks. Not to mention our DMS is on our intranet.

Anyone know how to get round this please?
I admint i've not done much googling on it, as i'm busy doing other stuff and hope that i'll get an email telling me that some kind soul has replied with a positive answer

Thanks

Banzai_Joe · 21 Jan 2015 at 12:14

Ok, weird.
If i go run > "iexplore" then it opens up IE, but the metro version can't be used. That's really dumb.

Banzai_Joe · 21 Jan 2015 at 14:02

m4cc45 said:
Probably also quite dumb to use a domain admin as a user account really. Make a separate account asap would be my advice.

M.

Say what?!?!?!

Domain admin isn't a 'user' account, its a domain admin account. The account that any admin would use to install and configure software on a domain computer.
:rolleyes:

Banzai_Joe · 22 Jan 2015 at 08:38

Thanks for the replies fellas.
Having being doing my job for over 9 years (without a great deal of mentoring) i've used 3 different I.T. companies for support and none of them have ever suggested what you seem to be saying.
I'll query it with them.

Banzai_Joe · 22 Jan 2015 at 08:40

back to my main question though, why would win8.1 think that the domain admin account is the 'built-in' account? Surely that would be win8.1pc\Administrator not domain\administrator