i have just recently posted a thread concerning this actually.

There are many complicated ways to do this, howeer simple tried and truted method is to do the following.

Go to the programs menu and find Internet explorer or use the one on the quick launch menu.

Right click and choose runas.

Use whatever admin accouht information you have.

Then this will run internet explorer with admin privelege.

IN the address bar just type control panel.

This will open control panel with admin privelege which you can then use for any task you like./

there are tons of articels on the net about using cmd under admin then using the .cpl files to do admin tasks but you need to remember the filenames etc. I prefer to do this as it gives access to everything for as long as you need it.

hope this helps