Access denied even though I'm an Administrator?

My user account on Windows 7 is part of the Administrators group which has a full control permissions on C:\inetpub\wwwroot:

However, when I try to create a folder in it, I get the "access denied" error. This is fixed by adding my specific user account to the list but that shouldn't be necessary should it?

Solution 1:

This is expected behaviour with UAC enabled.

How are you attempting to create the folder? Windows Explorer will generate a UAC prompt, so I'm assuming you're using some other method?

If you are doing it from a command prompt, make sure it is running with elevated privileges.

Solution 2:

The thing is though is that UAC can't "elevate" Explorer properly. See following article which explains why this happens and how to fix. I thought this was fixed in Windows 7 but appears as though it isn't, see Windows 7 Access Denied