Vista Administrator help

thecremeegg · 30 Jun 2008 at 12:23

I have an administrator accounbt on vista and have UAC turned off.
It would appear that programs are not running in administrator mode as in order to install activex etc i have to right click on IE and Messenger and set them to run in administrator mode manually

How can I get all programs to run like this by default?

marc2003 · 30 Jun 2008 at 12:35

i just use the "proper" admin account. i'll shall get flamed for posting this but meh!

open a command prompt (right click and run as administrator). type

net user administrator /active:yes

now logoff and at the logon screen you'll have a proper admin account with no faffing about. everything just works.

now it's time for me to do a runner. i'll have the ocuk uac/ie protected mode lynch mob after me.

Fire Wizard · 30 Jun 2008 at 12:37

Hello thecremeegg, I would highly suggest running as a standard user in Windows Vista and leaving User Account Control active. In regards to running programs with elevated privileges. You do not need to run Internet Explorer 7 with elevated privileges and if you wish to install things like Adobe Flash Player, Active X etc... then it will prompt you to elevate the privileges to do so providing you are leaving the User Account Control running as default. There is also absolutely no reason to run Windows Live Messenger with elevated privileges either. You shouldn't experience the problems that you currently are if you run how Windows Vista was setup to be run.

marc2003 said:
Naughty naughty naughty

Bad marc.

thecremeegg · 30 Jun 2008 at 17:23

Fire Wizard said:
Hello thecremeegg, I would highly suggest running as a standard user in Windows Vista and leaving the User Account Control active. In regards to running programs with elevated privileges. You do not need to run Internet Explorer 7 with elevated privileges and if you wish to install things like Adobe Flash Player, Active X etc... then it will prompt you to elevate the privileges to do so providing you are leaving the User Account Control running as default. There is also absolutely no reason to run Windows Live Messenger with elevated privileges either. You shouldn't experience the problems that you currently are if you run how Windows Vista was setup to be run.

Bad marc.

But thats the point, even with UAC active, in order for messenger to be able to play the games etc it needs to install activex, which it is unable to do unless I run it as administrator.

I think i'll do what marc says and be naughty

Fire Wizard · 30 Jun 2008 at 17:32

thecremeegg said:
But thats the point, even with UAC active, in order for messenger to be able to play the games etc it needs to install activex, which it is unable to do unless I run it as administrator.

Hello thecremeegg, when you wish to install Active X, it should prompt you to elevate the privileges. You certainly don't need to do anything special to install something like Active X. I am running as a "standard user" and when I wanted to install Active X, it would prompt me to elevate the privileges first and then entering the password of the administrator account to continue. That really is the point of the User Account Control, run everything with very little privileges but when something needs to be run with higher rights, it will happily prompt you to do so. This is also good because it will only give rights to that specific action and not open your entire system up.