Take the tour ×  Since we run Windows 7-clients in our windows-
server domain I have a specific use case that has become more
inconvenient:  On the client-site, being logged-on as an user
with restricted rights and having the user account control (UAC)
activated on the highest level, you can run an application with
administrative privileges by right-clicking onto it and choosing
“Run as administrator”.  After that, a popup window is shown and
asks for the username and password.  As a domain member you now
have to enter your full hostname with a backslash following and
the user name with administrative privileges (e.g.
Administrator) in order to authenticate as local administrator.
On XP-machines you simply had to type in “Administrator” for the
username.  That makes administration more inconvenient if you
run various Windows-7 clients in a company, because you always
have to lookup the hostname for the machine on which you want to
run something with administrative privileges.  Is there a
registry setting or a