I noticed that Aaron Margosis had stopped blogging, but I missed that he had started back up. He has a list of ways to fix or work around bugs involving not running as Admin starting here and going forward for a couple of posts.

Aaron is the creator of MakeMeAdmin, which is a little script that makes it easier to run with limited access. I used to use it all the time, but finally caved and went back to running as Admin. Especially at work, where if my account isn’t set up as Admin, I don’t know the password to make me admin. I considered setting up another account on my machine for this purpose and taking my main account out of the Admin group, but decided that working around our sysadmin to that level could be counterproductive down the road.