Keep in mind before simply turning off UAC (the instructions for which can be found by googling 'turn off uac") that the concpet of UAC is helpful at preventing your computer from being taken over by malware and viruses. Unfortunately the kinks of it have yet to be worked out by Microsoft.
I really appreciate this response.
I like the idea of UAC so I will recomend Chris's instructions if I see this again. UAC is much better than the old "everyone's an admin" setup MS used before, we should generally take Jon's advice and keep UAC enabled where possible.
