Once Windows 8 upgrade user account has more admin rights.

Just upgraded to Windows 8.  Now my user account has no administrative privileges on Windows 7 and I am basically unable to do much of what I have to do.  None of the instructions I found online to gain access to the work of Windows 8 hidden administrator account.

I am at a loss at this point.  I can't even set up a new user account and give administrator privileges without being already on an administrator account.

Someone has an idea of what I can do here?

Thank you!

My sister had the same problem when she upgraded to W8.  I did view the admin account, log in and set up a new user, which gives it full administrator privileges.  I also got it all favorite places that she had put on her before browser so that she would not have manually add all these sites once again to export.  Once she had the new user to configure the way in which he wanted to just delete the old user account.

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