One of the quickest and easiest ways to tell if you have local admin rights to a Windows 7 PC/Laptop is to run the command “net localgroup administrators“:
C:\>net localgroup administrators Alias name administrators Comment Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the computer/domain Members ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Administrator DOMAIN\Domain Admins DOMAIN\HDQ-Desktop Team DOMAIN\HDQ-OU Admins DOMAIN\HDQ-Workstation Admins DOMAIN\kcordero The command completed successfully. C:\>