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* Eliot Moss (Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:33:23 -0400)
> I am upgrading from one laptop to another, the old one running
> Windows 7 and the new one Windows 8.  On the old one, I disabled
> UAC and bash appears to run with admin privileges (which is what
> I normally want).  In particular, if I say 'groups' then Administrators
> appears among the groups.
> 
> On the Windows 8 machine, I have set UAC to the lowest value, but
> 'groups' does not include Administrators, even though the current
> user is an admin.

You cannot disable UAC this way in Windows 8 anymore. You have to 
disable "Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" group policy: 
<http://windows.microsoft.com/is-is/windows7/how-do-i-change-the-
behavior-of-user-account-control-by-using-group-policy>

Thorsten


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