Take the 2-minute tour ×  My AD account gives me admin
privileges on our PCs (allowing me to install software, add PCs
to our domain, change network configuration, etc). But with a
small handful of PCs (Windows 2000 and Windows XP) when I log in
I only seem to have standard privileges.  It does accept my
username and password so it must be talking to one of our domain
controllers (can't be using cached credentials because it's the
first time I'm logging into these PCs). I've tried pointing it
to different domain controllers, but that doesn't make any
difference.  I've tried refreshing group policy on the PCs, that
completes without errors but doesn't make any difference.  I've
tried moving the PCs into different OUs, including ones that
other PCs work okay in, again it doesn't make any difference.
Asked my colleagues (who have similar accounts) to log in using
their accounts. No difference.  What other things should I be
checking?  share|improve this question One thing that may or may
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