Don't have permission to do anything in SQL Management Studio 2012

I have installed SQL Server 2012 with SQL Management Studio on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1. When I log into Studio, it won't let me do anything other than view. I am using Windows Authentication and am logged in as a domain user with local admin
rights. I installed SQL with this same account. If I try to use SQL Authentication, I can't figure out the default password for "sa". Any ideas as to how to get access to this so I can create new databases from within Studio?

I am using express. Should I try developer instead? I should mention that I also have whatever version of SQL Server Express came with my Visual Studio 2013 when I installed it.
Express should work fine.
When you install SQL Server, there is a screen where you are supposed to enter a Windows user that is to have sysadmin permissions. There is a button "Add Current User" which is convenient.
On the same screen you can also specify that you want to have SQL Server authentication enabled, and in this case you must specify the sa password. That is, there is no default password.
Now, I don't install Express Edition very often, but I seem to recall that the Express install by default skips some of the screens unless you press an "Advanced" button along the way. The screen I'm talking about may be one them. But in
that case, I would expect the user under which you ran the install to be added as sysadmin.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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