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Setting up sql server on latop -- getting error Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error

I installed SQL Server on my laptop (windows 8).  When I try to connect to the database engine i get the following error

"Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error"

Why?
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Try running SSMS as an administrator to see if the message goes away.

Edit:  My thought is an issue with it not passing an admin token.
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I tried that :(
I tried turning off the UAC based on what i read online and that didn't work either
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I'm not sure i added the user to the sysadmin group.

How would I do this .  I am completely new at all of this
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It's a good exercise to go through - the very last point in time you ever want to have to learn to do this is on a downed production system!
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