Vista Limited Account

[Daolas]

Ok, So I've found another Vistaism that I hate.

I use a couple programs that require me to right click and choose run as administrator for them to run properly. The account that i log into the computer is an admin account..... So why the need to choose run ad admin?

I know that I can go into the executable files properties and choose always run as an administrator, but is there any not have to do this? Is there any way to make myself a true administrator?

Thanks

Dao

 

[guy_thing60]

Ok, So I've found another Vistaism that I hate.

I use a couple programs that require me to right click and choose run as administrator for them to run properly. The account that i log into the computer is an admin account..... So why the need to choose run ad admin?

I know that I can go into the executable files properties and choose always run as an administrator, but is there any not have to do this? Is there any way to make myself a true administrator?

Thanks

Dao

If you want to, you can turn off UAC - User account controls
in the control panel>user accounts...
On second thought, I would question why you have to "run" a program with elevation..as administrator...install - yes, but just run ?? - I'm curious abut such programs - mind giving examples...?

 

[silverwhisper]

daolas: i'm not familiar with vista, but honestly, that sounds like a security measure.

ed

 

[cd1_christine]

If you want to, you can turn off UAC - User account controls
in the control panel>user accounts...
On second thought, I would question why you have to "run" a program with elevation..as administrator...install - yes, but just run ?? - I'm curious abut such programs - mind giving examples...?

I'm not the original poster, but I can think of a few examples....

OpenVPN client/GUI. Needs admin privs to be able to set network routes.
Lots of security software, for the same reason.
Basically anything that needs to touch system-level stuff as part of it's operation needs to be run as admin.

 

[rydia57]

You think that's hard, my sister has Vista, and we trade mp3 files. She finds it hard to save mp3s from her laptop to a thumb drive. It'll take them, but it won't give them up. She's sure nothings wrong but. I suggest that she just save them to her other players until she can figure it out. Vista says she is downloading from the laptop, but she never finds the files on the thumb drive when she looks at it later. The wonders of Vista.