How to activate Win7's highest privilege and win7 admin permissions

When we use the win7 permission, we may find that we are an administrator right. However, when deleting certain files or folders, the permissions are not enough. Is the administrator authority not the highest? Yes, for files or In terms of folders, the administrator privileges of the administrator account are not the highest.

Does administrator rights be the highest privilege?

Many Win 7 users think that the administrator account has the highest privilege, and many software that cannot run under the user account. The administrator account can run normally. But the administrator account is really the highest authority of Win 7? Below, let's do an experiment!

Enter the Win7 with the administrator account, enter the Windows
folder, select a file and Delete, pop up a prompt window (Figure 1), feedback that the permissions are not enough. See it, the permissions of the administrator account are still limited. Is there a higher privilege than the administrator account?

Yes! That is the TrustedInstaller privilege, which allows you to manage Windows folders. Activate TrustedInstaller to delete the previously selected file and a confirmation window pops up (Figure 2). Now we have the highest privilege of Win 7!

How to enable the highest privilege

Below we introduce two methods to activate the highest privilege of Windows7

Method 1: Right-click on the file or folder you want to operate, and then go to “Properties →Security & Rarr;Advanced & Rarr;Owner & Rarr;Edit ”, in “Change owner to In the ” column, select the administrator user who logs in to the system, and then select “Apply”, confirm all the way, and return to the folder properties window. Then set the TrustedInstaller permission of the file or folder, go to the “Security” tab, select “Edit”, select the administrator user who logs in to the system in the permission window, and select “Allow” in the lower column. Confirm all the way, and now have the administrative rights to the file or folder. At this point we can delete the file or folder, it will be easy to get it! The disadvantage of this method is that there are more steps.

Method 2: With the help of the gadget "Windows 7 file permissions tool". Double-click this tool and select “Enable ‘Get File Permissions’” option to complete the installation (Figure 3). If you need to obtain the TrustedInstaller permission of a file or folder, right-click on the file or folder and select “Get File Permissions> to get the TrustedInstaller permission.